Vernon,
I completely understand. However, looking at it from my vantage point
(and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone here on this mountain top - or at the
bottom of this pit.. depending upon your viewpoint), I have a problem
TODAY. One that is causing me serious trouble TODAY. I know that
things like this take time, and I truly believe that this is not an MM
thing. That's not my view of it at all. My view is simple (and I won't
repeat it and bore everyone to death).
Reality is that I need a solution TODAY. Sometime to keep my people
from throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Maybe it would help for MM to post a simple, clean and concise,
page-by-page setting list of how you (MM) suggest we setup our servers
(using <gulp> IIS5, of course) to make sure that CFMX works properly.
Specifically --
- Page-by-page settings with the Administrator
- Specific IIS changes/additions/amendments
- Specific changes to CFMX setup files (similar to the XML file
changes for multi-homing)
- Some traps and tricks (simply put)
I know that you have the "best practices" and "performance tuning" white
papers. However, a "checklist" would be far more helpful -- so that
people like me that are experiencing a problem can turn to this
checklist (knowing that it's not a "cure-all") to make certain we have
things set to MM's recommendations.
Thoughts?
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Vernon Viehe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:44 AM
| To: CF-Talk
| Subject: RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!
|
|
| Lee, Cameron, I'm mulling over thoughtful responses to your
| thoughtful posts...
|
| But I couldn't resist a quick reply here:
|
| Macromedia's merger with Allaire was very expensive, and as
| is the case with any merger, it's not been totally without
| merger pains, which has been felt internally by most every employee.
|
| Please don't mistake the challenges presented from a merger
| and also the challenges of a ground-up rewrite as lack of
| full backing from Macromedia. I can assure you, we didn't go
| through the expense and pains of such a challenging merger,
| just to back-burner CF. CF is an extremely important part of
| Macromedia's product line.
|
| There are folks running CFMX quite successfully - that's not
| to say that there's no work to be done, but it's not all
| blood & gore. We've made it through other rough spots, and
| we'll make it through this one as well. It's as important to
| our livelihood as it is to your livelihoods.
|
| Vernon Viehe
| ColdFusion Community Manager
| Developer Relations
| Macromedia, Inc.
| Online diary: http://vvmx.blogspot.com/
| --------------------
| Macromedia DevCon 2002, October 27-30, Orlando, Florida
| Architecting a New Internet Experience Register today at
| www.macromedia.com/go/devcon2002
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: JCQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:10 AM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!
| >
| >
| > Matt said:
| > ===
| > I personally have had some not so nice interactions with
| Macromedia as
| > of late that make me wonder if they have forgotten how
| important the
| > ColdFusion community is to them. ===
| >
| >
| > But that's the nub, isn't it? While it may be that the CF division
| > remembers how important the CF community is to them
| {or...uh...maybe
| > not), it's far from clear that Macromedia, as a company, is acting
| > that way out of forgetfulness. It's also entirely rational for
| > them to have
| > decided that Flash etc is more important to them than CF --
| > meaning that
| > it really doesn't matter what the CF division thinks since
| they don't
| > set overall policy.
| >
| > The old adage "a fish rots from the head down" comes to mind.
| > All other
| > things being equal it makes more sense to believe that MACR is
| > slowtracking CF by conscious decision rather than by
| > oversight. It also
| > explains a lot more of the observed facts in the last 6 months.
| >
| > Although it's not nice to accept the idea that someone is
| consciously
| > ignoring us, it's a more rational explanation for being
| ignored than
| > to posit they being deaf or alzheimic
| >
| >
|
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