Editing Adobe ColdFusion (section)

== Alternative server environments ==
ColdFusion originated as proprietary technology based on Web technology industry standards. However, it is becoming a less closed technology through the availability of competing products. Such alternative products include :

* [[Lucee]] - Free, open source CFML engine forked from Railo. Lucee's aim is to provide the functionality of CFML using less resources and giving better performance and to move CFML past its roots and into a modern and dynamic web programming platform. Lucee is backed by community supporters and members of the Lucee Association.
These are discontinued or down :
* BlueDragon - Proprietary .NET-based CFML engine and free open source Java-based CFML engine (Open BlueDragon).
* Coral Web Builder
* IgniteFusion
* OpenBD - The open source version of BlueDragon was released as Open BlueDragon (OpenBD) in December 2008.
* [[Railo]] - Free, open source CFML engine. It comes in three main product editions, and other versions.
* SmithProject

The argument can be made that ColdFusion is even less platform-bound than raw Java EE or .NET, simply because ColdFusion will run on top of a .NET app server (New Atlanta), or on top of any servlet container or Java EE application server ([[JRun]], [[IBM WebSphere Application Server|WebSphere]], [[JBoss]], [[Apache Geronimo|Geronimo]], [[Apache Tomcat|Tomcat]], [[Resin Server]], [[Jetty (web server)]], etc.). In theory, a ColdFusion application could be moved unchanged from a Java EE application server to a .NET application server.