Question: Has anyone here had any experience with running OpenBD or Railo in production? We have some legacy CF6.1 apps that need to be hosted somewhere and I'm wondering if OpenBD or Railo is stable enough for production use, won't require a great deal effort to migrate to, etc.

Answer: 
Both are on par with CFMX 7 compatability so you shouldn't have any problems migrating a cf6.1 site to either.

Be for warned through that [OpenBD](http://openbluedragon.org/) **DOES NOT** support the **CFDOCUMENT** tag so PDF generation is going to be a problem. [Railo](http://railo.ch/en/index.cfm) on the other hand does.

Railo has an [express version](http://railo.ch/en/index.cfm?treeID=224), which doesn't require an install and makes it real easy to see if an existing application works with it or not.

OpenBD also has a [download and ready to run version](http://www.openbluedragon.org/download.cfm), though I haven't tried it out, it should be as easy to setup as the Railo Express version.

It seems that there is project started for OpenBD to integrate the [Flying Saucer project](http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer//) as a replacement for CFDOCUMENT support. More can be [found here](http://groups.google.com/group/openbd/browse_thread/thread/0f157a49cf84da73) about this.
Railo virtually has no documentation. It does not seem to be a priority for the core team, they have not managed the Railo open source project well. It is a case of lost momentum due to incompetency.

Railo is quite difficult to deploy on account of very weak documentation and consequently cannot be taken seriously. Furthermore the tag and function tags are empty when you scroll down to usage examples. This open source project and the team running it are a joke, completely out of touch with the recurrinfg complaints of install/config difficulties over the past 2 years.

Stick with Adobe Coldfusion which has good documentation or switch to another language.