Shouldn't you be pissed at Java's (Sun's) marketing team? You can't really hold Macromedia responsible for the term "Write Once, Run Anywhere" not holding true to it's claim. If it worked like it was marketed to work, then any J2EE application would work on THE Virtual Machine - not just vendor xyz's Virtual Machine with xyz's special settings... THE Virtual Machine. And since mac OS X would support THE Virtual Machine, and since CFMX produces byte code for THE Virtual Machine - you've got nothing to worry about.
This isn't the case, so you're SOL - welcome to Java :P Just to remain positive, here's what I'd like to see happen. First, CFMX cannibalizes most Java monkeys (seeing as they're usually swayed into using whatever other people are saying is cool/anti-microsoft anyway :P ). After MX is considered the defacto in creating web-applications, Macromedia releases a new version of it, MX+, which is nothing other than CF5 with a pretty new name. How cool would that be? > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:31 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFMX OS X [rant] > > > <rant> > > Umm... very disappointed that MX does not run on OS X... I > was hoping... > > At least as a developer platform, if not as a deployment platform. > > A Mac has some significant advantages for web developers. > For example: > you can easily and inexpensively run multiple concurrent > platforms (Win > 9x, Win NT, Win 200, Win MX, Linux, OS X, etc) to test the > look and feel > of an application in these environments... you can do this all on a > machine that costs under $800 and takes up less than15 cubic > inches of > desk space.... > > I am told that is no business case for MM to release CFMX for OS X? > > I read somewhere, that with the release of OS X, overnight, the Apple > logo was on more 'nix workstations than any other. > > Not to mention. that every Mac ships with OS X, integrated: Apache, > Java, etc already installed and ready to use (also Perl and pHp). No > separate installs, service packs, downloads... it's all > there... part of > OS X. > > I got the feeling that maybe MM looked at Apple's WebObjects (WO) as > competition (or vice versa)... but then the MM hookup with IBM shows > (potentially) how two competitors can cooperate to the > benefit of both > (and their customers). > > I think CFMX & WO would integrate nicely (Note, WO, for > $700, includes > GUI programming/debugging interfaces, and an operational SQL database) > > Finally, CFMXOSXWO... what a natural for an acronym... it > would be on > everyones' lips... > > </rant> > > > Dick > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
