Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLServer+ACS+Java <= AOLServer+TCL?

[Jerry Asher]

ArsDigita is moving away from AOLserver and Tcl, and moving towards Java
technologies.  They are doing this as the customer demands.

And AOL itself uses many technologies in their sites, and AOLserver is just
one tool among many.

It appears that if you are making a website, AOLserver/Tcl is a wonderful
tool, but if you are selling website development, AOLserver/Tcl is a
barrier.

However, the OpenACS project intends to support AOLserver, Tcl, OpenACS
3.2.5 and OpenACS 4 and I gather the old ArsDigita ACS 3.4 release as long
as the community thrives.  And frankly, the ACS community has never done so
well as they have done since the foundation of the OpenACS project.

So your questions might be:

Do you need a "big company name" behind your technology?
Will AOLserver/Tcl satisfy your other needs?  (For instance, while
XML/SOAP/java access are possible in AOLserver/Tcl, it is certainly easier
and maybe faster to implement in a different technology.)

Jerry