I believe Musky's actual question should be....what is the actual preferred platform that Infopop does their development on? When Musky first went to threads his site was on a Solaris 8/Sparc machine and we went through a big ordeal related to performance. Ultimately nobody was able to pinpoint what the problem was but they claimed that it "should" work but since Infopop didn't develop on Solaris/Sparc they couldn't comment directly on what may be wrong so we asked..."what platform does Infopop develop and run their apps on?". We figured that obviously the products have been tested and known to work with a certain number of users in some environment so we'll just mimick that environment. At the time Infopop stated that Redhat 7.3 was their preferred platform so we migrated the site to a faster Redhat/x86 machine and that resolved the problem....
....so now our question....Since Redhat Linux will no longer be a supported platform after 2/04, what OS will Infopop be using as this preferred platform? While the Fedora project will still be free, Redhat will not provide any support nor a method to regularly patch the OS via the Redhat Network based on what we've read. The Redhat Enterprise Linux product line provides these features but they come with an associated cost. SuSe or another varient could be a viable option but we are interested to know what platform Infopop is adopting or recommending.
