Hi Ed,
A few notes about your description. The COAPI is one part of Spectra -- the
other services, the Webtop, etc. making up the rest. We see the COAPI as a
set of tags and services for managing content. It's this technology that
we're re-architecting now in Java for inclusion in a future version of the
ColdFusion server.
Spectra has always shipped with a Community Source license, not Open Source.
It's a subtle but important distinction. Customer will continue to buy a
software license to use Spectra, and the Spectra community are invited to
submit bug fixes and modifications to the product team. We've always shipped
Spectra under this model, and have accepted lots of code changes this way
since the pre-1.0 days. In fact, this is how Ray Camden, our Community
Source leader, came to the company.
-Margaret Waters
Macromedia
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:22 PM
To: Spectra-Talk
Subject: RE: Content Managment - The Options?
This is my opinion of what's going to happen and maybe someone from
Macromedia will correct me if I'm wrong:
The COAPI is not Spectra per se. Spectra and the Webtop are a content
management solution built on top of the COAPI. The COAPI will be rolled into
Cold Fusion server with 6.0 and Spectra and the Webtop will become an Open
Source implementation of a content management solution for the COAPI.
The possibility exists that any number of vendors could start offering
content management solutions based on the COAPI, developing either from the
ground up or from the Spectra Open Source. I don't know what the licensing
will be like for the Spectra Open Source or whether it will allow for
commercial apps based on it, but it seems possible.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tom Briscoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 11:09 AM
>>To: Spectra-Talk
>>Subject: Re: Content Managment - The Options?
>>
>>
>>Unfortunately, I don't have any insight. But I do have
>>another question to piggyback to this thread. Outside of
>>Charles Teague's post on "The Future of Spectra" (and its
>>related posts), has there been ANY other official word?
>>
>>The plan as its stated, is to roll the COAPI into the
>>ColdFusion application server. I'm not sure what that means.
>> But if you're talking the COAPI being preserved, I think,
>>"Gee, isn't that damned near everything?"
>>
>>If that's the case, isn't CF 6.0 going to be that content
>>management tool?
>>
>>Briscoe
>>
>>>>> "Neil Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/10/01 05:55AM >>>
>>Ok, with the upcoming departure with Spectra as we know it,
>>what in your
>>opinions are the best of the rest? What tools can give us
>>the same or more
>>content management solutions that Spectra offers.
>>
>>Hope someone can give me some insight.!
>>
>>N
>>
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