coldfusion_ColdFusion：值得付出！

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Judging by many of the comments on my previous post, the licensing cost of ColdFusion is a major issue for many people, given the many free and open source alternatives. This is not a new concern – developers have been asking “is it worth paying for?” for as long as ColdFusion has been around. Fellow SitePoint blogger Eric Jones wrote an article way back in June 2004 and addressed this very issue (among others) in Making the Case for ColdFusion. Fast forward to 2008, and it seems that people are still asking.

从我以前的帖子中的许多评论来看，鉴于许多免费和开源的替代品，对于许多人来说，ColdFusion的许可成本是一个主要问题。 这不是一个新问题，开发人员一直在问“是否值得为此付费？” 只要ColdFusion已经存在。 资深SitePoint博客作者Eric Jones早在2004年6月就写了一篇文章，并在“为ColdFusion辩护”中解决了这个问题。 快进到2008年，似乎人们还在问。

But first, just how much does ColdFusion actually cost?

但是首先，ColdFusion实际要花多少钱？

A Standard Edition license – designed for delivering multiple applications or sites on a single server – will cost, on average, US $1,299. Up the other end of the scale, an Enterprise Edition license – for multiple servers or plugging into existing J2EE installations – can be purchased for US $7,499. The Enterprise Edition has some extra features not found in the Standard Edition that are mostly of interest, as the name suggests, to developers working in an enterprise-level environment, as well as an expanded range of supported platforms and databases.

标准版许可证(旨在在单个服务器上交付多个应用程序或站点)平均费用为1,299美元。 另一方面，企业版许可证(用于多台服务器或插入现有J2EE安装)的价格为7,499美元。 企业版具有一些在标准版中找不到的额外功能，顾名思义，它们是在企业级环境中工作的开发人员最感兴趣的，以及扩展的受支持平台和数据库。

An important item to note is that a completely free developer’s edition of ColdFusion has always been available. This version mimics the Enterprise Edition in functionality, but limits access to localhost and two external IP addresses. This makes it ideal for local use for individual developers and small teams.

需要注意的重要事项是，始终可以提供完全免费的ColdFusion开发人员版本。 该版本模仿企业版的功能，但限制了对本地主机和两个外部IP地址的访问。 这使其非常适合个人开发人员和小型团队在本地使用。

For smaller projects, shared hosting is available, starting from under US $10 per month according to the listing of ColdFusion hosts on Ben Forta’s site. As with all hosting, you get what you pay for, and in most cases hosts at the more expensive end of the scale will be more reliable, secure and feature-laden.

对于小型项目，可以使用共享托管，根据Ben Forta网站上ColdFusion托管商的列表，每月起价为10美元以下。 与所有托管服务一样，您可以自己付费，在大多数情况下，规模更昂贵的托管服务器将更加可靠，安全且功能丰富。

So, development is free, but that aside, deployment costs are not insignificant. Yet ColdFusion is more popular than ever. There is something – actually, several ‘somethings’ – about the language that keeps developers coming back.

因此，开发是免费的，但除此之外，部署成本并不是微不足道的。 但是ColdFusion比以往任何时候都更受欢迎。 关于使开发人员回头的语言，实际上有一些“东西”。

1. Speed of development ColdFusion really puts the “rapid” in Rapid Application Development. Ask any CF developer and most likely they will tell you that they can write code to interact with databases, LDAP directories, email servers etc in far fewer lines of code than other languages. Fewer lines of code means faster development and deployment, and in an industry where hourly consulting rates are the norm, that translates into lower costs, offsetting the cost of the server itself.

1.开发速度 ColdFusion确实在快速应用程序开发中处于“快速”状态。 询问任何CF开发人员，他们很可能会告诉您他们可以编写代码来与数据库，LDAP目录，电子邮件服务器等进行交互，所用的代码行数比其他语言少得多。 更少的代码行意味着更快的开发和部署，并且在一个以每小时咨询费为标准的行业中，这意味着可以降低成本，从而抵消了服务器本身的成本。

2. Ease of learning ColdFusion is also very easy to learn. It’s primarily tag-based – a source of derision for many hard-core web scripters – but this means that it’s easy to understand and fast to learn for developers who may have started out with HTML. That also translates into lower application development costs, particularly for organizations who may look in-house first when extra development assistance is needed. It’s worth noting that CFSCRIPT blocks allow almost all coding to be done with ECMA-like scripting instead of tags, so developers more used to PHP, ASP classic, ActionScript or JavaScript can also get familiar fast.

2.易于学习 ColdFusion也非常易于学习。 它主要基于标签，这是许多核心Web脚本编写者的嘲笑之源，但是，这意味着对于可能开始使用HTML的开发人员而言，它易于理解并且学习Swift。 这也意味着降低了应用程序开发成本，特别是对于那些在需要额外的开发协助时可能先内部考虑的组织。 值得注意的是，CFSCRIPT块几乎允许使用类似于ECMA的脚本而不是标签来完成所有编码，因此，习惯于PHP，ASP Classic，ActionScript或JavaScript的开发人员也可以很快熟悉。

3. The Java factor Since version 6, ColdFusion has been based on Java. In fact, ColdFusion was marketed for a while as the fastest way to build and deploy a J2EE application. Organizations that have existing systems or who need to interface with existing Java applications find this attractive, mostly again for the development speed.

3. Java因素自版本6起，ColdFusion已基于Java。 实际上，将ColdFusion作为构建和部署J2EE应用程序的最快方法投放市场已有一段时间。 具有现有系统或需要与现有Java应用程序交互的组织会发现这种吸引力，主要是因为开发速度快。

So there you have it. I’m not going to argue that ColdFusion is the best solution for every job – in fact, when it comes to small sites, in my own business I often choose PHP for it’s ubiquity and the low cost of hosting. But whenever significant amounts of custom programming or integration with other systems is required, the speed and ease of development makes ColdFusion my number one choice.

所以你有它。 我不会争辩说ColdFusion是每项工作的最佳解决方案-实际上，当涉及到小型站点时，在我自己的企业中，我经常选择PHP，因为它无处不在且托管成本低。 但是，无论何时需要大量的自定义编程或与其他系统集成，开发的速度和便捷性都使ColdFusion成为我的第一选择。

翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/coldfusion-worth-the-cost/

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