On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 12:17 Europe/Rome, Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
[snipped rebuttal]
Cocoon strong points ==================== OXF doesn't mention a few Cocoon strong points.
I would like to see at a very least:
- Views;
- Pluggable URL-like extensions (the Source interface);
- WebDAV support, as client (stable), server (partial) and proxy (development);
- XML:DB support;
- SAP R/3 connectivity;
- Scheduler components;
- Velocity support;
- Python (Jython) and generic BSF support;
- PHP support;
this hasn't worked for a while [besides, nobody cares]
- Lucene integration; - Text to XML conversion using generated grammars (chaperon);
That's it for now, but I've sure left out something. I hope that Orbeon is willing to talk about their feature matrix in order to give a reasonable, fair and useful comparison tool to their potential customers.
Entering a marketing pissing contest would just show that we think we need to rebut their comments.
I personally think we don't.
They can throw all the FUD they want on us, but, doing so, they will just show their customers that such a free and open source solution exists (and maybe they didn't know).
bad publicity is still publicity. And lies fire back.
They do a much better marketing service for us if they keep up that lame page ;-)
again, non-linear marketing at work.
[oh, look, they support Java Server Faces.... (sound of Stefano puking)]
-- Stefano.
