This was one of the most useful posts I have personaly seen in a long time.
It goes a long way to explain where we are wrt Allaire and Verity.
I _really_ liked hearing about the new license deal. I am tired of
dealing with Verity environmental issues...
Steve
At 10:21 AM 12/8/2000 -0500, Johnson, Russ wrote:
>Normally Alan, I am inclined to agree with you. However, not so in this
>case. :o) We had 2 Reps from Verity come to speak at our last CFUG meeting
>in Jacksonville, FL. There suite of products was nothing short of amazing.
>We did get the skinny on the relationship between Allaire and Verity
>however.
>
>One of the reps was a technical sales rep who deals directly with Allaire.
>He had just received word during our meeting that Allaire had signed a deal
>with Verity to package Verity's "Advanced" search engine technology called
>"K2". The features we were shown on K2 made the Verity 97 search engine
>look silly (not too hard to do, I know). It was way too early to know when
>they would be implementing the new K2 engine, maybe "Neo" release if we are
>lucky. The rep said that Allaire could have it packaged and ready to go in
>as little as three months, so that could make it a candidate for the 5.0
>release as well but I doubt it.
>
>The deal with Verity pushing CF users back to Allaire is that Allaire only
>licenses the Verity SDK. They are responsible for what the final product
>does therefore Allaire would be the only one who really "could" answer any
>of the questions directly related to their implementation of verity.
>
>Sorry to be long winded, just thought you guys/gals would like to know.
>
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