This is called business. If you want something you'll have to pay for it.
There is no free lunch.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Justin Greene wrote:
> Hi All,
> I just had a very disturbing conversation with Macromedia. We have been
> running CF/Apache on Windows for about 2.5 year now and developing on Cold
> Fusion since the 1.5 days (cgi only). Version 1.3.20 of Apache for Win32
> (which has been available for over 6 months) is the first that Apache.org
> says is stable (not that there have been problems with the old versions).
> It has made available an enhanced API (EAPI) but modules need to be compiled
> with EAPI support. Unfortunately the existing Cold Fusion module for Apache
> on Win32 uses the standard API. I spoke with Macromedia in an effort to get
> an EAPI build of the module and was informed that they have no plans to
> compile an EAPI version of the module for Cold Fusion 4.x on Windows, but
> that it will be supported on Cold Fusion 5 and I should upgrade.
> Considering the amount of time Cold Fusion 5 has been out and the installed
> 4.x base (and the fact that I have a cluster of web servers and this upgrade
> is cost prohibitive and unnecessary), this strikes me as a blatant attempt
> to force upgrades. I think that they have been going to Microsoft school.
>
> I now feel that I have no alternative but to investigate alternatives to
> Cold Fusion as I no longer have faith that Macromedia has any intention of
> providing the type of support it's developer community needs. A far cry
> from the days that Allaire was compiling custom builds of 3.x for me while
> we tried to track down threading problems in the Cold Fusion Server service.
> This is annoying as we have a lot of code that will need to be re-written,
> but it will end up being cheaper in the long run if this is indicative of
> how Macromedia is going to respond.
>
> I hope that I am not the only one who is disturbed by this and that
> Macromedia will reconsider their position on this.
>
> Disappointed,
> Justin Greene
>
> p.s. Allaire posted a resolution to the EXACT problem for Linux on August
> 7, 2000 in KB# 16303, however it requires the source for the module which I
> was told would not be made available for windows.
>
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