If you look at that performance paper you will see the windows and linux tests were done on different machine types. The test was meant to show performance differences between different versions of ColdFusion on the same platform - windows, linux or solaris. It was not meant as a platform comparison.
Again, my own testing has shown CF on linux to perform surprising well. Same machines - dual booted. I have worked in various parts of CF support for over 7 years. I know for the past 4 years there have been a lot of people with lots of linux and/or unix experience. I cannot speak for *ix support back in the cf4/cf5 days or prior. But currently you should find support on linux to be great. We see lots of customers running on linux now. In earlier years there were few people running on linux or unix. Now a days, that is not the case. Regards, Ken Smith Tier 4 CF/JRun Product Support Consultant Certified ColdFusionMX7 Developer Adobe Systems -----Original Message----- From: Mike Chytracek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:30 AM To: CF-Linux Subject: RE: Any hosting companies offering CF8 on Linux? According to Adobe, Linux ran slightly slower in response time than did it's windows counterpart. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/whitepapers/pdf/6_1/cfmx61_perf orma ncebrief.pdf We've found that to be the case as well with internal testing. We haven't tested CF 8 yet however to see if this holds true. We used to be exclusively a Linux shop until we discovered the support from Macromedia was SO MUCH better if you were using Windows. So we switched. Haven't had a single stability or performance issue. We have a client (http://www.wilton.com) that has 6 of their properties on a single machine, running MX7 using windows 2003 Standard and we rarely have to do anything but rotate the logs. This is a dual cpu machine (about 2 years old now) that averages over 30 requests a second and peaks near 60. I used to be an OS snob. Now, not so much. I'm just a application platform snob now :) Mike Chytracek Managing Partner Ignite Solutions p. 312.239.0032 c. 815.302.3507 f. 866.839.7896 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/message.cfm/messageid:4383 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Linux/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
