I've spent HOURS trying to get Jira installed on a Linux/Apache/Tomcat server. I found your installation documentation very inadequate, and in the end does not work. I have opened up a trouble ticket and am waiting for support to contact me.

Many other products I've been evaluating have pre-built virtual appliances that I can download and boot using VMWare. All I needed to do was download them, unzip them, and fire up the VM. These appliances are ready-to-run and configured with default parameters so you can be up and running FAST so that customers can spend their time evaluating the product, and not trying to get it to run.

I'm not interested in a hosted option, which is why I'm installing it in-house. If we like the product and decide to move forward, I can move it from my workstation VM to our VMWare vSphere 4 environment.

Thank you for your consideration