Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software is available for purchase in two editions — Standard or Enterprise — both of which include the entire infrastructure necessary to build and deploy ColdFusion applications. Also available are two free editions — Developer and Trial — which are full-featured but provide only limited deployment capabilities. At any time, full commercial deployment capabilities for an existing Trial or Developer Edition installation can be activated by simply inserting a valid serial number for ColdFusion 8 Standard or ColdFusion 8 Enterprise without the need to reinstall.
Learn more about the ColdFusion 8 editions:
This matrix provides an overview of key differences between the various editions of ColdFusion 8. A complete comparison of features by edition is available in the feature comparison matrix.
| Standard Edition | Enterprise, Developer Editions | |
|---|---|---|
| OS support | Windows®, Mac OS, Linux® | Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris™, AIX® |
| Built-in database drivers | Microsoft Access/ODBC, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby | Microsoft Access/ODBC, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby, DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase |
| Server Monitor/Multiserver Monitor | no | yes |
| J2EE application server deployment | no | yes |
| Enterprise manager — multiple server instances | no | yes |
| Administrator and RDS user and role management | no | yes |
| Enterprise server security (sandboxing) | no | yes |
| FIPS 140-compliant strong cryptology | no | yes |
| .NET assembly support | yes | yes |
| Event gateway architecture | Limited | yes |
| PDF and document services | Limited | yes |
| High-performance e-mail delivery | Limited | yes |
| Multi-threaded CFML (CFTHREAD) | Limited | yes |
| Microsoft Exchange Server integration | Limited | yes |
| Structured reporting | Limited | yes |
| On-demand presentation generation | Limited | yes |
Compare ColdFusion 8, ColdFusion MX 7, and ColdFusion MX 6.1 features by edition. As you'll see, ColdFusion 8 offers dramatically improved performance and scalability, easier integration with enterprise IT environments, and a host of other improvements for ColdFusion developers.
Used for delivering multiple websites and applications on one or more servers, ColdFusion 8 Enterprise includes all the capabilities of ColdFusion 8 Standard, plus special features for enabling enterprise-class business applications.
Purchase ColdFusion 8 Enterprise Edition
Used for delivering a single website or application on a single server, ColdFusion 8 Standard provides powerful development capabilities in an easy-to-manage configuration that is ideal for small to medium-size businesses.
Purchase ColdFusion 8 Standard Edition
ColdFusion 8 Developer is a free, fully functional version of ColdFusion for local development of applications that will be deployed on either Standard or Enterprise servers. In addition to localhost, applications running on a Developer Edition server can be accessed from two remote IP addresses, making team development even easier.
Download ColdFusion 8 Developer Edition
If you are an independent developer, you can work with a third-party hosting partner to deploy your ColdFusion application.
Learn more about ColdFusion for independent developers
For evaluating ColdFusion 8 Enterprise, we offer a free 30-day trial. This is a fully functional server that includes all the features of ColdFusion 8 Enterprise. At the end of the 30-day trial, the Trial Edition automatically becomes the Developer Edition. At any time, full commercial deployment capabilities for an existing Trial or Developer Edition installation can be activated by simply inserting a valid serial number for ColdFusion 8 Standard or ColdFusion 8 Enterprise without the need to reinstall.
