In article <fgjeme$9e5$1@forums.macromedia.com>
"ToBeNamedLater"<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:
> To be fair, it wasn't Adobe that did it, it was
Macromedia. But we
> were burned very badly when they removed the TXT/CSV
ODBC drivers
> from the product without telling anyone ahead of time.
We installed
> the upgrade and poof, they were gone. (IIRC, it was
version 5 to 6).
The change from CF5 to CFMX (6.0) was a big change and a
number of
changes were forced on Macromedia by the switch from native
C/C++
database drivers to the Java-based JDBC drivers. That was a
complete
ground-up rewrite of the CFML engine. There have been no
changes on
that scale since (and that was five years ago).
Of course, no one should upgrade a working production server
to any
new release of software until they've fully tested it on
another
server. I think quite a few people stayed on CF5 (or even
earlier
versions) because CFMX was too much of a change for them and
their
existing systems.
> It doesn't make me very comfortable based on my past
experience.
Did you have any other specific problems with upgrades? Or is
all this
based on one upgrade five years ago?
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