On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 09:20 , Ian Lurie wrote: > I don't know about offensive but it seems like Macromedia may be missing > an > opportunity here. The X Server is a screaming deal - inexpensive, fast and > easy to work with. If CF MX worked on it it'd be a great niche market that > you-know-who would have a hard time penetrating with .Net.
Bringing a product to market on a 'new' platform is a big expense and commitment: QA and support are much bigger issues than actually get it working. The Verity question is a big one too - I would say that there's really no chance of Verity ever working on OSX which opens the question of what the Verity-related tags should do in CFMX-for-OSX. Yes, the X Serve is a sweet beast and very reasonably priced (dammit, the Mac in general is very reasonably priced: I just quoted a Dell for my wife at $4,300 all-in so I looked at the identical setup from Apple - same software, peripherals etc - and it was only $3,500 for the equivalent iMac! ). Personally, I'd love to see us support CFMX on OSX. I'm just not holding my breath. "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
