RENAMED: FCS development - going strong 2004-03-10 - By flash@(protected)
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Thanks for the assurance Chris. I didn't mean to sound negative (I was
just saying how it kinda appeared to uninformed users like me). I'm glad
to hear that there's a development team working hard to keep FCS current
and improve it even more. Keep up the good work.
Ed
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Chris Hock wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Let me assure you that we continue to develop FCS and there will be future
> versions. In fact, as I mentioned in a post to this list a week or so back,
> we hope to have an updater (FCS 1.52) out shortly that will provide support
> "official" support for some newer platforms in addition to addressing some
> other issues.
>
> Thank you for your support, and please proceed with investing thousands of
> dollars in it :-)
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris Hock
> Director, Product Management
> Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX
> Macromedia, Inc.
> 600 Townsend Street
> San Francisco, CA 94103
>
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: flash@(protected) [mailto:flash@(protected)]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:08 PM
> To: flashcomm@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [FlashComm] FlashComm Books
>
> A little off the main topic, but if I may, I want to respond and ask about
> this remark:
>
> > issue with hardly any blogs are mentioning FCS anymore? Macromedia have
> > seem to gone quiet on FCS (which gets me nervous) so while I enjoy
> > reading this list, it still feels like we (this list) are the only ones
> > using the product or for that matter, talking about it.
> >
>
> Well, besides the fact that FCS is not featued on the front page of
> Macromedia (in a showcase of 16 featured products, including JRun server),
> FCS is not officially supported on anything above Winddows 2000 and RedHat
> Linux 8.0.
>
> System Requirements (from the Macromedia site):
>
> "Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT 4.0 Server (SP6 or later), Red Hat Linux
> 7.3 or 8.0"
>
> I think any potential buyer who looks at the System Requirements has to
> wonder a little, or at least I did.
>
> I know it can be run on other systems, but it's not officially supported
> -- they told me that I can hack the installation script to make it run on
> RedHat 9.0 but they would not offer support since it has not been tested
> on that.
>
> So anyway I just couldn't help but wonder. Does anyone know if Macromedia
> is going to develop it further and officially support current platforms?
> It would be nice to have that kind of reassurance before investing
> thousands of dollars in it, which is what I may be doing very soon.
>
> {Pardon me for any ignorance I may be displaying here.}
>
> Ed
>
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