I've had similar concerns.
I'm not all that excited about building simple
websites with overly-complex technology for the sake
of impressing investors. You use the right tool for
the right job.
The way I see it, regardless of what direction this
software goes in, we have the source code to a very
good system that is running a monstrous beast of a
site like aol. We can pillage what we want of the
other systems and have a "non-java" implimentation.
-derek
--- Alan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having just completed a site using using
> Apache/Tomcat/Interbase (
> http://www.free-minder.com ) at the end of last year
> I came across Greenspun's
> book.
>
> We spent many unproductive hours evaluating whether
> to use this or that buzzword
> compliant technology. Next we had to try to
> configure an entire software circus
> to address a programming model that was solved 40
> years ago by IBM with the 3270
> terminal. Greenspun's evangelism of the no-nonsense
> AOLServer + TCL really hit
> me between the eyes and I was convinced that my next
> project would go down this
> route.
>
> As we pull together the threads of our next project
> I am slightly dismayed to
> learn of the disputes at the top of Arsdigita as we
> were planning to use the ACS
> system as a springboard to which we would add our
> subscription based
> application.
>
> My main concern is the porting of the ACS system to
> Java. To me this looks
> rather like a fashion statement and is something I
> would seek to avoid because
> it will surely just add another tent to the circus.
>
> Is the future direction of AOLServer likely to
> incorporate integrated Java (and
> move away from TCL)?
>
> Can we safely base our software infrastructure
> strategy on AOLServer + TCL (with
> or without ACS) or does the ARSDigita move towards
> java presage a similar shift
> in AOLServer?
>
> Alan Wright
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