After just experiencing what's needed to justify using FarCry, as great as Geoff's feature list is, at the end of the day they wanted to play with a demo, and it has to look impressive. If we can get an impressive feature filled demo site available for download and install then it would make our lives easier convincing them that FarCry's the way to go.
Ask Vignette, Interwoven, etc for a demo that exhibits all the features of their system. These are companies with significantly more resources to hand than daemon. Furthermore, they charge for a license to their products. You won't find them forthcoming.
I think folks need to realise that FarCry is not some experiment we have thrown out to the general community. It's not an idea that a bunch of CF guys with free time are building. FarCry CMS is an enterprise class suite of software that has been built over many years and then released as open source. It's feature set far exceeds anything in open source within the ColdFusion community, and is equivalent to many mid-to-high end commercial CMS/Portal systems on any platform.
It's open and flexible because over the years we've had to deal with many different types of clients and a multitude of scenarios. Most installations will only use a fraction of the functionality in this product.
People look at Aura and then at sites using FarCry and they find it hard to see the connection.
It's worth noting that many of our own client pitches are done using simply Aura. More functionality can be demonstrated with this "simple" out-of-the-box app than will fit in a 2-hour technical session. You just need to familiarise yourself with what's there.
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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