[thesite] blockfactor revisted

[Daniel J. Cody]

um. it is an issue of CF being closed source.

if i have oracle box connecting to a PHP or a j2ee engine, i dont get 
charged an extra $X for the priviledge of using the native drivers that 
i already have. to clarify:

to use the CF native drivers, you have to have Oracle client software 
installed on the machine(weo in this case) in the first place. i could 
buy the enterprise version of CF with the hope of having native oracle 
connectivity, but the fact is i wouldnt unless I had oracle. that seems 
like a chicken before the egg thing.

the 'issue' of havign a cf license and cf being closed source are the 
same jeff. because cf is closed source, i have to pay to use their 
license to connect to a native oracle driver. with an open j2ee or php 
engine, i don't have to pay to *USE* that driver. with cf you do.

sure, there's more to the $4000 that cf ent. provides. cluster cats and 
corba connectivety. ya.

for one, no one uses software based load balancing(cluster cats) in 
serious apps; worthless. corba? thats cool if you're hooking into j2ee 
or shit like that. in which case you'd use j2ee.

oh, and the new verity search engine. yay.

someone bind my enthusiasm :)

.jeff wrote:


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>>to get that connectivity, you need CF enterprise. aka
>>$4000
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> oh, then this isn't an issue of cf being closed-source.  it's an issue of
> not having the right license.  i thought you were talking about the native
> driver for oracle costing an additional $4000.  in reality, the $4000 covers
> *much* more than just the oracle driver.