Neil -
Your listing out some pretty specific details about the future of Spectra
here. Is this first-hand information from the "sources" at Macromedia?
Can anyone from Macromedia confirm this information?
- Bob DeStefano
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From: Neil Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:23 AM
To: Spectra-Talk
Subject: RE: Spectra-Talk-list V1 #22
Pat,
How much does Allaire Spectra cost? Allaire Spectra is priced at $15,000 per
server and requires the ColdFusion Enterprise Application Server 4.5.1 with
Service Pack 2 or above. Upgrade pricing for 1.0 customers is $7,500.
Well, its a tricky decision for you but I would say go for it, you would be
hard beat to find a product with such a feature set at the price.
FYI : The COAPI features of Spectra which are being introduced in Neo (as
Greylock) are under tight wraps but I know that that all the "good" things
of Spectra are carrying forward with Greylock, and that there will be fixes
to known problems with the existing model, such as:
- WDDX storage made representing relationships difficult and often slow
- WDDX storage made using standard SQL for custom searching cumbersome and
also inflexible
- WDDX storage did not fully take advantage of the databases indexing engine
With Greylock, we do all the hard work of generating standard relational
schema, still preserving content ID uniqueness with GUIDs (therefore
allowing transparent component packaging and re-deployment), and managing a
lot of the inheritence and relationship data within the runtime (in EJB)
instead of in SQL against the WDDX object store.
Spectra is not dead and buried and with the Community Source Site / Model
(as Spectra has always been) it will continue to be developed under the
banner of Macromedia and the support you can gain will be via the QA
approval process. For the next 2 years, Spectra will continue to be
supported and to be honest with you, short of some teething installation
problems I doubt you will need much of it :-)
Hope this helps.
Neil
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