Let me get this out here now, as surely someone would ask: "how do I get CF11 downloads?"Īs far as I know, Adobe has pulled the downloads from any public location on the site. (And there are certainly others out there blogging about it.) And see my recent other blog posts on CF 2016, and more to come. The CF team listened, and reversed courseĪnyway, let's celebrate the positive: the CF team heard the complaints this week, as many tried to get CF 2016, and somehow they were able to get the "wider" Adobe IT team and gatekeepers to lift the requirement to use the download manager. In my consulting work (which often involves helping people install, update, or migrate to different CF versions) I often watched as they struggled using it to get CF11 also, and so on. While it did also give Adobe useful analytics (about downloads, pauses, download times, and more), the pain for many was just too much. If you did want it, it was hard to find, buried in a folder that one would rarely expect to look in.Īnd that's just a couple of the negatives. You weren't asked where to put it, because it offered to proceed to install it. Such folks were forced to find/go to a Windows machine just to get the file, then bring it to their "real" machine, all making it challenging just to download CF!Įven when it DID work, it was also hard to know where the downloaded file ended up. Many found that the link for the download didn't work at all, or was challenging to use. (And given that the CF download is now over a gig, because of the inclusion of the API manager, that's not an insignificant value.) Now, we should acknowledge that there was some value to that tool: it helped managed the download, recover from paused or failed ones, and so on. This is a continuation of a multi-part series of posts on the introduction of CF2016. For others, there are some more points worth discussing. Here's some news that Adobe may not herald, but many users certainly would want to know and celebrate: as of today, when you download ColdFusion 2016 (whether the trial edition, developer edition, or on buying Standard or Enterprise, or the Express edition introduced in CF11), you are no longer forced to go through the Akamai Download Manager! :-)įor many, that's all they need to know. And I may revise the content as necessary. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Some content may be outdated-though not necessarily.
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