Why is it not a very good server? There are plenty of reasons not to use the X-Serve for what he wants without making them up. Apple does not make hard drives, nor are the X-Serve's hard drives anything special, just standard Ultra ATA/100 drives that can be bought anywhere. It seems funny that you call Apple a monopoly, but you suggest he buy a Dell with I assume a nice Windows license on it? With the exception of Aqua, OSX is an open-source variation of BSD. Like I said, I wouldn't suggest that Drew hack CF to run on the Mac for a job, but that's no reason to spread your opinion as fact.
John on 12/27/02 3:58 PM, Adrocknaphobia Jones at [EMAIL PROTECTED] most eloquently stated: > Drew, > > The XServe is nice. But in reality, it's not a very good server. > Considering you get stuck in the Apple monopoly. Since it's so small you > can only use Apple hard drives. Which are of course overpriced. > > I'd buy a dell. You'll have more options, and probably save an arm and a > leg. (But I would charge the client for the price of an XServe) :) > > Adam Wayne Lehman > Web Systems Developer > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health > Distance Education Division > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Drew Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Which Server for CF??? > > I am having a dilemma and would appreciate some feedback. > I need to purchase a new web server for an existing job... And to > repurpose > when the job is over. > I am an Oracle guy, and an apple guy... So now that Oracle 9i is offered > and > supported natively on Mac OS X I am very happy. > However, I also have been using CF for so long now for all my > applications > it has become a crutch in some ways. > I do all my coding on my PowerBook in DWMX. > I love Apple products and would love to use my mac for everything. > I realize there is a hack to port CF to OSX, however since it can not > yet > run on Apache there, and a few other bugs, I am reluctant to purchase > the > Xserve for the job as I would like to do (even though I could run a W2K > server in VPC6). > > The server will be repurposed as my main webserver/application server > after > the initial project and I would buy an Xserve in an instant if I knew > there > was a Mac release of CF around the corner. > > Perhaps if CFMX did not run the way I needed it to natively (via the > hack) > in OSX, I would think it would run ok in VPC6 W2K... With the dual 1ghz > g4 > processors and 2GB of RAM. > > Any thoughts or comments? > -Drew Harris > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
