Robert Everland III wrote:
Not to get in a battle of who's is bigger, but I am now evaluating what CMS to use, is Spectra better than Farcry, or on the same level?
Many of us are existing or ex-Spectra developers -- so you should get a fairly candid response from us.
To put Daemon's own view into perspective.. we had one of the largest Spectra portfolios worldwide and continue to support several large Spectra implementations. See http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/spectra for some of the Spectra enhancements we have released to the public.
Spectra is a toolkit only -- it is a *long* way from a complete solution. One of the things we did (along with other development firms) was to put together our own libraries of code based on the Spectra toolkit to provide content management for our clients.
When Spectra was unceremoniously dumped by Macromedia we decided to take our ideas, interfaces and approaches and do something with them rather than let them rot on the vine. So from the ashes FarCry was born, built on CFMX components, and leaving behind the dross we disliked in Spectra itself.
FarCry shares some similar technical concepts to Spectra: eg. the COAPI, containers/publishing rules, PLPs and the like. However, that's really where the similarities end.
As to comparisons? Well its worth considering that Spectra has been without change for two years. That's a long time -- even in post dot-bomb internet time. Spectra does not leverage *any* CFMX functionality. Spectra is not a working solution out of the box.
I won't bother to put together a comparison chart -- Spectra simply doesn't compete well with FarCry in any aspect except documentation. Your best bet is to simply install both products -- the difference is really that obvious.
Best regards,
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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