ColdFusion MX product editions

The following table describes each edition of ColdFusion MX Server:
Edition
Description
Licensing
Developer
For Windows and Linux.
Includes every feature in the Enterprise edition, with the following exceptions:
  • A 10K Verity document search
  • No HTTP-based load-balancing and failover using Macromedia ClusterCATS
  • Expires after 30 days to only support requests from the local host and one remote IP address
Free for noncommercial use, for one processor per server, for developing and testing web applications on the local host and one remote IP address. Not licensed for deployment.
Professional
For Windows and Linux.
Features full ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) support, including:
  • Custom tags and ColdFusion Components
  • Full support for server-side ActionScript and Macromedia Flash Remoting
  • Extensibility and integration with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML), and with Component Object Model (COM), Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
  • A built-in charting and graphing engine
  • Database connectivity using ODBC with a desktop database such as Microsoft Access, and using a Type 4 driver for SQL Server or MySQL
  • Database and LDAP directory authentication, and resource security
  • A 125K Verity document search
Licensed per server (up to 8 processors per server).
Enterprise
For Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.
Includes every feature in the Professional edition, and also provides:
  • Database connectivity using Type 4 drivers for Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and Informix
  • The ability to import and execute Java Server Page (JSP) servlets and JSP Tag Library imports
  • Server sandbox security
  • A 250K Verity document search
  • Advanced server management capabilities, including server log analysis, configurable probes and alarms, and automated archive and deploy options
  • HTTP-based load-balancing and failover using Macromedia ClusterCATS (installed separately)
Licensed per server (up to 8 processors per server).

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