On Friday, Dec 27, 2002, at 15:11 US/Pacific, John Venable wrote: > 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.
*cough* Whilst I agree with you, I suspect that we don't want to get into (another) Mac vs Windows discussion on this list. Right now, Max OS X is not a supported platform for ColdFusion MX and I don't see that changing in the near future (remember that I am nothing to do with the CF product team so that is just my opinion!). Having said that, a number of people are happily running CFMX in one form or another on their Mac. (I actually have three separate configurations of CFMX running - simultaneously - on my Mac laptop but they are all unsupported). Some people are also running BlueDragon on Tomcat on the Mac (Vince can chime in with whether that's a supported platform or not - I seem to recall Joshua Miller indicating it wasn't supported). I too have BD / Tomcat running locally, more for comparison that real work, as most of my CF is CFC-based these days. Personally, I develop on Mac and deploy on Solaris and several of my team have switched too, for the convenience of Apache / CFMX / Oracle 9i all running locally in a Unix environment that they can take anywhere - even tho' it is unsupported. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
