Well Dale, the question was about hosting :-) Railo will make it's way. I'm sure, but it will take time...
Gert Dale Fraser schrieb: > Hey gert, > > All those items you list are only relevant to hosting providers, most users > don't do this, a very small percentage. I use it in a corporate environment > on our production servers for our use, so not only do I have any experience > with those items, I have no interest. > > I was however impressed with the compatibility list, seems very complete for > version 1.1. The way I read it you support cfc's cfdocument and almost > everything other that the listed exception, a very good start. > > One battle you will have is convincing people to spend any money with a > company and product that is almost unheard of, I have no such issues > convincing businesses to spend 10k on Adobe products however. > > Regards > Dale Fraser > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gert Franz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 7:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > > Hi Dale, > > here my comments to your concerns: > > 1. security > Railo does not claim to be absolutely secure in terms of weaknesses or > security holes. Nor do we claim to be more secure than other engines in > this terms. But just give me your thoughts about these matters: > How do you prevent users from different webs in one instance of: > - accessing other datasources (without having different db-users etc) > - accessing all mappings > - accessing all customtags > - accessing all cfx-tags > - allowing some webs to access the file system and others not > - allowing some users to use java objects and others not > this is the type of security i addressed. > > 2. performance > I agree on that. I just compared Railo to the existing engines. And we > will look for ways of improving performance if MX8 is faster than Railo 1.1 > > 3. pricing > I do not know what pricing you relate. Since the enterprise version is > much cheaper than the ones of BD and MX. For those who just need the > professional version it is the same. And there in addition is the free > community version. > And yes, we can argue about the features. In fact i see it the other way > round. But in addition I have to say that, since I am from Railo :-) > > Gert > > Dale Fraser wrote: > >> 1. Security >> Says Who? Once you have a decent sized user base with people testing for >> security weaknesses, I really don't see how you can claim this. Just >> > because > >> you and your limited user base hasn't found security holes doesn't mean >> > they > >> don't exist. I also bet that almost every CFer in here will say that >> Coldfusion is very secure, I've never had any issues. >> >> 2. Performance >> What's that saying on stats, CF8 is supposed to be much faster again so >> > lets > >> do a comparison in a few months. >> >> 3. Pricing >> Seriously, I looked at the pricing, it aint all that great, just like BD's >> if it was significantly less expensive you might have a case, but it's >> marginally less expensive with less features. >> >> Regards >> Dale Fraser >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
