One of my application is running on ColdFusion 10 and that will become unsupported in May 2019. So Client wants me to Upgrade to a higher version, may be 11 0r 2016. Can someone please help me with the procedure? I mean whom should I contact? How should I upgrade? What precautions should I take? What is the cost involved?
Can someone please help me with the procedure? I mean whom should I contact?
You can contact Adobe sales [email protected] and/or support directly by emailing [email protected] (notice that it is only one 'l' and no period). They can help you with purchasing a license and getting support for what you need.
You can also request information online - Request for contact
How should I upgrade? What precautions should I take?
They can help you answer this question too. Basically you can either upgrade the existing server in place or build out a new server and switch over to that server when you are ready. I prefer the second method as it leaves the current server in place while you work through creating the new environment.
There is also documentation online to help guide you. ColdFusion User Guide - INSTALL COLDFUSION
What is the cost involved?
Depends on the kind of license you need. See the ColdFusion buying guide for more info. You have the option to purchase directly from Adobe or from a third-party reseller. Contact info is on that page I referenced.
As far as specific costs, from the Adobe FAQ site here:
Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) is sold in two editions: Standard Edition costs US$2,499 per two CPUs, and Enterprise Edition costs US$9,499 per two CPUs. ColdFusion can also be used for development at no cost with the complimentary Developer Edition, a full-featured server for development use only.
Or you can go the free, open source, route and install Lucee instead
Light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language with a solid foundation Lucee is the leading open-source CFML application server/engine. Lucee provides a lot of functionality (tags and functions) to deal with all kinds of web related actions. Manipulating images, PDF files, XML, string, numbers, dates and a lot more. You name it, Lucee does it for you! Lucee has built-in support not only to call existing web services, it can also generate web services for you in the most simple way.