During the CFUnited keynote this morning, we announced plans to support ColdFusion 9 in cloud computing deployments. Not a lot of details were given, and pricing was not discussed, but this is what we did say:
- The current CPU based ColdFusion licensing, including no restriction on instances or virtual servers, remains as is in ColdFusion 9.
- In addition, ColdFusion will introduce new licensing options for cloud environments, where there is no per CPU model. ColdFusion Standard will allow a single cloud instance, and ColdFusion Enterprise will allow up to 10 cloud instances.
- Split licenses won't be allowed, so no ColdFusion Enterprise running on 1 CPU and 5 cloud instances, sorry.
- We do plan to support Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) specifically by creating ready-to-use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
More details to follow.
I am in the ballroom at the Landsdowne resort, venue for CFUnited 2009. I hung out at the resort bar briefly last night, it was great to see so many familiar faces, many of whom I meet only once a year. Opening keynote starts in about an our, making this the perfect time to tweak our presentation.
