No, not the ship from Star Trek, but that much bandied about term whose only mean I can discern is 'big and expensive'.
I was recently commissioned to develop a proof of concept site which is a database of short review videos of products and services. Videos are delivered by Brightcove, authentication is handled by Janrain, but all the geographic and tag searching is handled by Terascript and Filemaker. Well the site got approval, and budget. But the suggested scope of the project is fairly big. Like millions of users. And the term 'Enterprise' keeps floating about. We have decided to host on Amazon AWS for it's resilience and scalability. We haven't decided Windows/Linux yet but will probably go the latter. And for database we'll probably go for some flavour of SQL. The real question is what middleware do I use? Do I stick with Terascript (hey, I've stuck with it this long) or move to PHP and rewrite everything I have done so far? Does Terascript have what it takes? What is it's future? I would be interested in your thoughts. Wayne Irvine w: http://www.byteserve.com.au/ p: +61 2 9960 6099 m: 0409 960 609 ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body.
