Spike,
Good questions -- when you buy a copy of Spectra today, you get version
1.5.1. This will continue to be the case for future purchases. Then, if you
want to get updates, you would download the latest set of fixes from the
Community Source site. When developers submit code for inclusion in
Spectra, that code is included in the Spectra community source license.
And, yes, it's way too early to talk about licensing, product features, or
pricing for the next version of the app server.
-Margaret
-----Original Message-----
From: Spike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:02 PM
To: Spectra-Talk
Subject: RE: Content Managment - The Options?
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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