We experienced a similar set of problems.
An excellent example is this:
We bought several copies of Spectra for Solaris.
We develop with CF Studio on Win2000 machines (no unix version of Studio is
available).
The only way that you can install the Spectra extensions for Studio is to
run the Spectra install on your Studio machine.
How likely is it that our Win2000 machines would be able to run the Solaris
install files?
You'd expect some directory on the install cd to contain a Windows install
file that just installed the Studio extensions, right? Wrong!
It had just never occurred to the people that put together the Solaris
install cd.
Our local (Australian) Allaire office, were extremely helpful, but took some
convincing that this could be possible.
The only solution we could come up with was to actually send us a full
Spectra for Windows install cd.
I won't even go into the issues we had with Spectra 1.0.1 for Solaris. This
version just plain did not work.
I can say that with help from the Australian Allaire office (big thanks to
Robin Hilliard) we now have Spectra running nicely on our Solaris boxes, and
our site will go live in a week or so (barring any future disasters).
Regards
Darren Tracey
Web Developer
Thiess
Australia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rion D'Luz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2001 3:47 AM
> To: Spectra-Talk
> Subject: Any Solaris success stories out there?
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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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