On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:15 , Jesse Noller wrote: > No, I was the only one from Macromedia who commented. The users who > feel strongly about the subject would obviously say yes.
Well, I commented too. I run CFMX on OSX day-in, day-out and do all my development on it. But. As I have repeatedly pointed out IT IS UNSUPPORTED. Verity doesn't work, publishing web services doesn't work. I'm sure other stuff doesn't work too. For what *I* need, it does the job. If it breaks, I'm on my own. Jesse's points about cost / ROI for ports are spot on. I worked for a software company in the early 90's who targeted about 20 different hardware / OS combinations. We had to create phenomenally portable code in order to be able to do that in a cost-effective manner - which strictly limited the sophistication of our products! > Neither of these avenues have been shown, or opened to us as of yet, > our most common feedback is for a "Free Developer version" for OS/X. Exactly. This would be a zero-revenue situation for us which makes the port unappealing. More to the point, users would still expect everything to work flawlessly. Look at the loud complaints already over some of thee small differences between CF5 and CFMX! Multiply that by an already vocal minority clamoring for the OSX port and multiply *that* by some necessarily omitted functionality - like Verity - and it hardly bears thinking about! While Dick is an admirable champion of the platform, he is also a very good example of the level of 'noise' we make expect if the OSX port wasn't perfect (no offense Dick, I'm sure you understand what I mean!). > Trust me, I *want* us to support these platforms, but as a developer, QA > engineer, long time employee and a budding business person, wanting > something is nice, but given current constraints and reality, it is not a > viable opportunity for continued growth and revenue generation. Like Jesse, I also want to see us support more platforms but, as Jesse so correctly points out, it ain't viable (and may never be so). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.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
