Enterprise Linux. Not that I don't understand the reasonings, I just think
rebuilding that server is something I would have liked to avoid.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff Meyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:45 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re:How to deal with RH 7/8/9 EOL [was: CF on Linux]
We've been running RedHat (since 6.2) with ColdFusion (since 4.5) for
about 3 years now. There are a few different paths I've been investigating
lately for Linux:
From what I've read the first core release of Project Fedora was a
disappointment and had quite a few bugs in it. Since Fedora isn't likely to
be supported by any major applications (including CF) it's probably not a
viable long term option anyways for anyone who wants apps that are actually
supported.
I've been looking into purchasing a license for RedHat Enterprise Linux ES
but the 349 USD price tag coupled with annual costs for a subscription is
somewhat daunting, at least when you're used to using a free OS. SUSE
Standard Server 8 is another option but their price is 449 USD. RedHat's
main partnerships look to be Dell and Oracle whereas SUSE has a strong IBM
partnership and is now owned by Novell (who also owns Ximian). If you have
a preference towards any of those companies' hardware or software it might
be something to consider. Of course there are plenty of other Linux distros
but very few of them have much enterprise support.
I'm commited to Linux more than anything else. MM's commitment to Linux
however seems to be wavering. Although the Verity support isn't maintained
by MM that entire suite of tools in unusable on any modern Linux OS. I'd
like to see MM consider offering the Lucene engine for Linux users in place
of Verity.
Ultimately I'll probably stick with RedHat and pay the fee or find a
suitable Linux distro that works well with the rest of my open source stack
(Apache, MySQL and PostgreSQL). As far as the app server is concerned it's
likely that I'll be making a migration to Tomcat with 6-12 months and
converting our existing code base (about 50% CF and 50% PHP) to a unified
Java code base. The issues I've been having with Verity since upgrading to
CFMX 6.1 have left a very bad taste in my mouth and a far less positive view
of CF and MM that I previously held.
-Cliff
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