Well, it was some time ago and I can't even remember the details. It was probably a lot of bad luck, but it was enough to scar me for life. I just wanted a rant, so mine is not a balanced view ;-) However, I'll try and rake my memory and be a bit more specific. 1) The performance on an E450 under moderate load was something like 60% of the performance of the same app on a PII/233. This is a bit like comparing chalk and cheese, but we also found that response time scaled linearly with load on NT, and exponentially on the E450, IIRC. A lot of other people on mailing lists reported similar results. Admittedly these were all seat-of-the-pants comparisons. 2) We were using Spectra v1, which was absolutely not supported properly on Solaris, despite what it said on the box. It took about a week to install it properly, and it had a dependency on iPlanet Directory Server, which they didn't admit to for months, and which meant we had to spend some ridiculous amounts of money on an iDS license (up to $1m, if I remember correctly - to support a 40k system...) It was also *full* of bugs. 3) The technical support was appalling. There really, literally was *one* person who seemed to know anything about their Solaris support *in the world*! Other tech support contacts kept telling me to do things like reboot the server to see if that worked. The whole episode left me with the impression that Allaire was rushing out products without any real technical underpinnings. Like I said, I was probably unlucky, so feel free to ignore me. I didn't like custom tags as a programming paradigm, and much prefer the ability to write pythonscripts etc in Zope. It had pretences to OO style without providing any of the real benefits, and it was stiflingly procedural for my tastes. It reminded me of programming in ASP. This is very subjective, though. Hope that was a bit more helpful. seb * Tommy Johnson <tommy@7x.com> [010725 18:30]:
I happen to like ColdFusion, and haven't had a problem with it running on NT or Solaris. Wonder what happened in your situation (not a bash, just curious as to what went wrong)