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Funny, I should stop sleeping. I wanted to take a moment to address something
that is bothering me a great deal.
Out of the huge thread yesterday, there came a lot of realizations that
Macromedia is currently examining internally, misconceptions if you will about the way
MM communicates things.
Make no mistake, these issues are being discussed, as Sean and Vernon have
both mentioned. However, one of the things that bothered me the most was the fact
several people basically said:
"OH NOES! CFMX is poop! I won't buy/run it until all of these horrible bugs are fixed".
This is what I refer too as the "Myth of Bugs". I think something many people
are forgetting is the scenario of a mailing list, or the forums. This is the scenario
that discourses the fact that mainly the only people who will post to forums, and
mailing lists in a typical day are those who have issues.
Now, if I read cf-talk on $RAND day, I could safely assume that CFMX was
crippled, a lame-duck to the market. Does this assumption make it true?
No.
It bothers me to hear people say that they will not even try CFMX out because
there are "so many" show stopping issues. I would beg the argument that this is far,
very far, from the truth.
Those of you "dropping" CFMX or completely ignoring it because of the
debates/issues raised on CF-Talk and the Forums would be better served if you actually
downloaded and ran your application yourself, instead of taking the "word" of the
mailing lists and forums.
CFMX, as has been stated before, was the *most* tested version of ColdFusion
*ever* put on market, I can't make this clear enough.
I would imagine that some of the "show stopper" issues that are being raised
have either been addresses, will be address, or are simply environmental. I would also
state that the only people who raise the "CFMX is Poop" flag are those who have hit a
bug, or other issue, which is show stopping to *them*. Remember, hundreds of people
download CFMX daily (we have the numbers that show this) and run it without issue.
*of COURSE* those people who run into any type of problem are immediately
going to identify that problem as a "show stopper" and post to the mailing lists and
the forums screaming as loud as they can to hopefully either find a solution or get
Macromedia to help them "for free".
I can only stress that those of you reading these lists and the forums take
everything you see with a grain of salt. Not everyone is running into these issues,
everyone is not "throwing CFMX out the window". We have *many* customers running CFMX
in production, under load, daily, fine.
If you install CFMX, and you run it, and you find an issue, I cannot stress
enough that you contact support *immediately* to get that issue addressed ASAP.
I will not admit that the ColdFusion team (myself included) shipped "Poop". I
will not admit to having wasted nearly two years of my life, I know this is *not* the
case. I personally believe that the "firestorms" shown on this list, and the forums,
are not the rule, but rather the exception to the rule.
Please, try it out *for yourselves* before passing judgment.
Sorry for ranting, it bothers me. A lot.
Jesse Noller
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Macromedia Server Development
"No concept man forms is valid unless he
integrates it without contradiction into the
sum of his knowledge."
- Ayn Rand
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