What I was getting at was that a lot more people would use Mac hardware if they could run the things they want. I would love to setup some XServers for our application hosting, but since CF doesn't run on it, it would be a foolish purchase. I know there are other things that do run on Mac, but switching our entire code base just to run Macs would be equally foolish. This has always been the downfall of the Mac - they're excellent (in my opinion superior) quality and they're relatively inexpensive and they're enormously more pleasing to use - but if vendors don't write software for them, then people aren't going to use them. I imagine this played a large role in OSX being built on Unix - so it's easier for vendors to port software to the Mac, thus making it more viable.
Alas, the industry is not necessarily driven by the best quality hardware/software, simply the most marketable and most widely used. It's unfortunate for us, the developers who know and love Macs, and for the end-users who really don't know what they're missing because Windows has been shoved down their throats for as long as they can remember. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:57:22 -0400 >> > > I think that this would a natural for anyone considering >> > > hosting on a Mac Server. >> > >> > Yeah it would, but who is thinking about hosting a Mac >> > server? No one I know. >> >> Because ColdFusion doesn't run on it - it's a catch 22 huh? > >No, not really - there are plenty of other app servers which can run on OS >X, but I still don't think that XServe is going to take the hosting market >by storm. > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ >voice: (202) 797-5496 >fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ___________________________________________________ ___________________ >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/cf- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ >Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar= lists > ______________________________________________________________________ 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
