Locutus, anand wouldnt know since he doesnt work for e-Zone media who made these forums. Anand is simply a client of e-Zone media's who runs fusetalk.
Fusetalk runs on NT/2000/Linux/Solaris Platforms
Fusetalk runs on Oracle/SQL/MySQL/Access database platforms
No Unix/Oracle is not better. ColdFusion for NT/2000 is a much more mature product than its NIX counterpart and performs better. Oracle is not faster than SQL running these forums, we have doen so much testing on this it would make someone ill. Despite the what the oracle TV commercials tell you SQL is a very high performance database server. Once the NIX ColdFusion platform matures I'm sure it will improve. The next versions of ColdFusion are rumored to run on the Java platform so performance will probably improve and so will cross-platform support. Java portability is excellent for that.
Hope that helps.
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