Hi David,
Furfly has been doing work on ecommerce and apparently has
some code they will be releasing soon: You can find out the
latest here:
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0004o4&topic_id=12&topic=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design
OpenForce is working hard on a major upgrade to bboard, as
you'll see here:
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0004ir&topic_id=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design&topic=12
CMS capabilities are a little murkier. Although aD's underlying
content repository architecture is alive and well, the community
basically decided to throw out the CMS itself because it had
serious problems and nobody was particularly enthusiastic
about wading into the code to fix it. A new, much simpler CMS
module called "Edit This Page" (or ETP) was developed by
Musea. They are actively working on evolving it, as you'll see
here:
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00047q&topic_id=12&topic=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design
Here's a thread on using OpenACS on OS X:
https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002mP&topic_id=11&topic=OpenACS
Regarding the question of buying a new box, it's certainly true
that you'll get the quickest and easiest answers from the
community if you're running Linux just because so many people
are doing it. However, there is a fair amount of interest in OS X. I
personally would love to hear performance reports on XServe.
