Software Forum for queries related to all iPlanet products.

[Sanjeev Agarwal]

Hi All,
Please visit http://softwareforum.sun.com regarding any query related to any iPlanet product. There you will be in touch with the iPlanet experts who will be able to help you more.
Thanks,
Sanjeev.

[Gerry Giese]

Sanjeev,
Do you work for Sun/iPlanet? Just curious.
I've tried the forum for iPlanet there, and dislike the interface. I have my own gripes with InfoPop on JavaRanch, but it's still tons better. I've asked questions on the sun software forum and gotten poor responses or none.
I prefer to ask casual questions here and call iPlanet tech support if it's serious. Plus, here I don't have any worries about censoring if I have gripes about Sun/iPlanet (like the fact that iAS 6 is buggy and incomplete). Not that I suspect any censoring is happening, but it's not uncommon for vendor-hosted forums to do so.

[Annie Joe]

Hi Gerry,
I'm surprised and a bit curious to know why you don't have a good opinion on softwareforum ?. I usually see a good response in that site and never felt like ignored and I thought that was site managed by Sun themselves, so they might have a good expertise right ?
Cheers

[Mike Curwen]

I've found that forum to be really difficult to use. I'm sure once I get used to it, it will be fine, but there is something to be said for "simplicity from the start".

Also... what was wrong with their newsgroups? I enjoyed those much better, but there must be a company directive to answer only questions posted to the softwareforum.sun.com website now, because the ng seems to be very quiet.

[Gerry Giese]

I never could see the newsgroups. Our network firewall blocks all newsgroup stuff, and back at the house my @home cable access switched to comcast.net and they don't support newsgroups yet.
I still stand by my opinion that having 'unofficial' support groups for any product is beneficial to the community.

[Fred Welland]

The first poster in this thread is likely employed by sun in some fashion. I have been using iPlanet for the past 1 1/2 years and have seen his name frequently on their news groups associated with Sun/iPlanet support.
FWIW: The previous iPlanet newsgroups actually worked quite well. Seldom a day would pass before someone would provide feed back to an issue or question. I have at least two questions on the new SoftwareForum site and haven't even had a bite.
To boot is is hard to browse; it has no reall good way to see a snap shot of all ongoing threads. Very disappointing overall.
Perhaps this site will make up for the loss of a good resource.

[Gerry Giese]

Glad to have you aboard, Fred. Pass the word about Java Ranch. The rest of the forums on here are a great resource, and this one has a good start. The more the merrier!