On Monday, Mar 3, 2003, at 06:55 US/Pacific, Jerry Johnson wrote: > But if you've got Websphere running, it seems like CFMX might be a > good addition to Websphere, rather than a replacement.
I'd second that. CFMX for J2EE WebSphere edition. Protects the investment in hardware and software already made and provides all the benefits of both J2EE and CFMX. >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/28/03 05:11PM >>> > Who out there has experience running CF in an NT environment and also > a Unix environment on a LARGE scale? Out of curiosity, define "LARGE". > There are 24 Sun Solaris Machines onsite each with a license of CF5. It would be interesting to know what sort of spec these are? > 1) should they stick with CF5 So you're running both CF5 *and* WebSphere? You mentioned you were running CF4.5 before. > 2) should they move to CFMX See above. CFMX on WebSphere would seem a good choice. > 3) Should they scrap machines and move to NT?!? What are they running WebSphere on? Unix or NT? Buying enough NT iron to match the compute power of those Sun boxes could prove pretty expensive. Macromedia is pretty much all Solaris in production and Allaire was all Windows so one of the questions after the merger was whether to move to Windows. In order to support our traffic levels on Windows, we would have spent a lot of money buying additional hardware. Furthermore, the majority of our IT staff are more familiar with Unix than Windows, from a development and production point of view, so there would have needed to be quite a bit of training involved. Windows would have been a very expensive change for us. The systems that we inherited from Allaire still run on Windows but as we introduce new systems to replace those, they will most likely be deployed on our Solaris infrastructure. Note: in case it needs saying, I'm talking about Macromedia IT who build and support the website, as opposed to Macromedia product teams who develop CF, JRun etc. > Also, the need to connect to an AS400 to get product information is > critical (possible?) At least one person on this list has CFMX talking to an AS400 so hopefully they'll chime in. > We do not have to get into this on the list if you would like to email > me privately I think it will be interesting to hear people's experiences. 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 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
