Raymond Camden wrote: >>Given the circus tricks required to install Spectra on CFMX I >>very much doubt if any "new" people will bother with Spectra. >> Do Macromedia have plans to improve installation of the open >>source product?? When they remove the Ektron editor, Sybase >>and any other third-party components what are they replacing >>them with -- how much of an investment are they likely to >>make to get this thing to work? > > I don't think this is quite fair. The third party tools are what - > Ektron and Sybase. However, Sybase was ONLY used for OOB experience and > demos. You do not need Sybase. Ektron is an HTML editor, and a good one, > but can easily be replaced by alternatives.
That's not really what I meant. Clearly Spectra doesn't need these things to be a decent code base. But someone will have to repair the installer and the code base etc once these are removed. Someone will need to make it easy to get going to convince others to give it a go. I'm yet to see any evidence from MM that they are doing anything with the code base at all. >>As a closing note... If you are CF/Spectra shop looking for a >>CMS solution that is open source and actively supported by a >>growing developer and user base -- you might consider FarCry >>CMS (http://farcry.daemon.com.au/). Especially since the >>migration path and learning curve for Spectra shops is minimal. > > So, is this list going to turn into a "Since Spectra is dead, here is my > CMS" list? If so, my company also offers a CMS. ;) Maybe :) But specifically the CMS I'm pointing to is Spectra-esque *AND* it is open source. If there is anything else in the CF World that even comes close to its sophistication and is open source, I'd love to hear it. CMS is a commodity -- we turned the Daemon CMS product around into a service driven model as opposed to a license driven one. Seems to be working so far. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
