I think the complaints are valid, to an extent. Yes, there are some rather glaring and ugly issues with CFMX. I think MM has been a little sluggish and resistant to acknowledge some of the problems unless the people complaining follow very specific channels (which IMO greatly limits the field of vision on knowing about bugs and getting them resolved). I think it is an asinine policy to force a bug to be acknowledged almost primarily through a support system that requires a credit card. They are in the business of software, if they are informed about a bug, it should be researched.. at least to some extent.
I realize there is a wide world of people using CF and that can make some "bugs" end up being not bugs at all, in reality just stupid users doing stupid things. Our company spent a week with support trying to resolve high-load stability issues. We did get our problem acknowledged as a bug, though. No real fix yet. The Apache JRun connector leaves a lot to be desired in how well it behaves in general. In production, using recommended web server, libraries and RH version we have had great success with Linux+CFMX. I have not seen any real problems from the server. Stable, fast, does not complain a lot. Does not change the fact that there are issues with the platform in certain areas. You can work around them with some effort. Porting our code to CFMX was a huge challenge, but now that it is all done I don't regret it. I think it could have been a little smoother via better documentation for CFMX. I don't think the documentation is all that great, which really made some things in CFMX painful. Overall, I think these are just growing pains for a completely new platform. I honestly can't disagree with someone taking a wait and see approach and evaluating their options, it is a healthy business choice. There is still a lot of buzz about the platform. If our company was larger and we had to support a wider variety of CF applications in various states of maintenance and development I think I would take a "wait and see" approach as well. YMMV Jeremy Allen Application Architect elliptIQ Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Justin MacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:16 AM To: CF-Linux Subject: eweek on cf / linux Re-posted from cf-talk FYI ---------------------------- Are these valid complaints from the CF Linux/Unix community? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,741132,00.asp <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,741132,00.asp> Ryan Kime <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer Webco Industries ---------------------------- J ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
