ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X

kylner writes "This seemed to be one of the lesser-covered news items at Macworld, but it seems that Macromedia has decided to release its JRun 4 J2EE Server for Mac OSX. What's siginificant about this release? Well, they simultaneously released Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers to go with it! It may not be a stand-alone edition of ColdFusion MX, but this is still a dream item for any ColdFusion developer with a Mac at home. It took me about 30 minutes to install on my iBook 600 (I messed up a few times since it requires a little terminal work) but once I got it up and running it just worked. All I've had time to do so far is create a variable and output 'Hello World', but so far so good."

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Re:Interesting?

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Ah. It seems you are learning a valuable lesson: what you consider to be "proprietary" is not inherently bad. What you consider to be "Free" is not inherently good. The world is not a battle of "us versus them" (or in this case, "you versus us") but rather a bunch of people all struggling to make their way together.

One should use the best tool for the job, based on one's own judgment. If one uses a second-best tool simply because it is "Free," then one is still using a second-best tool.