Um. What happened to Terascript version 7? �� On Aug 14, 2013, at 2:21 PM, "Robert Shubert" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wayne, > > At this time TeraScript version 8 is not yet officially announced, so I can’t > easily point you to a list of features and improvements that are on the > horizon. What I can say is that version 8 is a serious update to the > TeraScript platform and will either ship with or lay the foundation for many > enterprise-class features. These include scalability, performance, > interoperability, security and other focuses. > > Later this year we are going to have an alpha period during which you would > be able to test your software with version 8. You’ll also be able to provide > feedback to our development team to help shape the final product. > > I can directly answer this question: Will TeraScript 8 provide a platform > which can be leveraged within Amazon’s EC2 service in a scalable way to power > a high-volume website? Yes. > > Robert > > From: Wayne Irvine [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: TeraScript-Talk: Terascript and the Enterprise > > 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. > > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [email protected] with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected] with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body.
