Margeret,
Thanks for your response. It clarifies some points for me, but leads to
other questions as well.
If the COAPI will be released as part of Cold Fusion Server and Spectra will
be Community Source, at what point would someone be required to purchase
Spectra? And why would they purchase it? Does Community Source refer to a
community of product purchasers? If so, how does this differ from support
provided with any other software purchase? Based on the information that I
have, Macromedia will not be releasing any new versions of Spectra beyond
1.51 and at some point support for Spectra will be discontinued. It seems to
me that there's an implication that Spectra customers are joining a
community of people who have elected to purchase software which they will
support and enhance themselves. That doesn't make sense, so where am I
confusing things?
Last question: Is it the case that vendors other than Macromedia will be
able to implement commercial content management solutions based on the
COAPI?
Ed
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Margaret Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:17 PM
>>To: Spectra-Talk
>>Subject: RE: Content Managment - The Options?
>>
>>
>>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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