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Hello All:
Has anyone got a good, reliable, working Solaris system up and running?
I'm trying to run CF4.5/Spectra1.5, NS Fasttrack, NSLdap, Sybase ASE
to get a system running. I've installed all the Solaris hot fixes.
The install is o.k., the various servers are talking fine. BUT.....
I've had nothing but grief , and judging from Allaire's response more grief to
come.
Netscape clients break on the webtop, Xapp fails on SEARCHing collections,
Nothing I install seems to work out of the box, template paths are all
windows oriented. The list goes on and on.
MM assistance arrived with this:
> I wanted to let you know of some support options that you could take to> acheive
>some answers on your issues.
>
> The Spectra Forums is an excellent source of information, suggestions, and
> discussions with Macromedia Support Engineers. This is a free option to
> take for your open issues.
> http://www.allaire.com/support/forums/
Have been there and read them all. They are almost exclusively window
centric. For instance, when creating an object, I'm prompted for the
'ewebedit' application. First, ewebedit.exe does not exist under my
document root tree:
/opt/netscape/server4/web/allaire/spectra/ewebeditpro/
The '.exe' file simply does not exist and furthermore i fail to see the
relevance since i'm running a netscape client on a linux box workstation
connected to a Solaris host. Secondly I'm irked that the application is bundled
into Spectra with those kind of dependancies. Its one thing for a sample
application, Restorenet, or Xapp for that matter, to require things that are
platform based. But for macromedia
to sell a product that they claim is for Solaris and have so much latent
window's code that even the plp paths are d:\somedir\somefile.xxx
is misleading at best. To claim that Spectra runs on unix and then find
out that not only does a Netscape client break the webtop when trying to
create an application, type, or property but that I'm forced to use an
IEexplorer client for the webtop to even function correctly. Try to migrate a
CODB using netscape. This is horrendous, and is hardly addressed in the forums.
What is addressed in the KB's are things that have fixes, not those for which
nobody has a solution or even a clue.
Allaire is telling me that I should be forking out $ on a per call basis for
support and I'm of the mind that this Application, for solaris, is not ready
for prime time. I got my company to purchase Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC
bridge. The application installed fine, worked fine out of the box. But
we had some difficutly getting connected to a particular DB host. So
we paid for tech support. That's the way I feel things should work.
But Allaire seems to think that I'm breaking the system when all i'm
doing is following what's been laid out in their reference manuals and
watching it blow up.
If I hadn't gotten my company so committed, and if we
weren't already predominantely CF oriented (now that it runs on a linux
cluster) I'd scrap the entire thing.
Sincerely
Another Crash Test Dummy
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