At 20:16 11/06/2001 Monday, you wrote:
>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.
When you say that the customer will continue to by a software license. Does
that software license include the software that is developed by the
community for the community source site?
Or is the community source site a separate issue?
I assume that it is far too early to ask about the pricing structure for
CF6/Neo and Spectra.
Spike
>-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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