On 1 Aug 98, at 18:26, Susan Duncan wrote:
> The short answer is that while Cold Fusion is easier to program in than
> Perl, it does not take the programming, logic or database knowledge
> requirements away. I've been programming since '82 so yes, picking up Cold
> Fusion wasn't difficult, but I can tell you that I have been stumped now
> Can a secretary do Cold Fusion... forms maybe.. but I've tried to teach
> non-techies about it.. and even just to leave that part of the code alone
> and it doesn't alway work.
Well the gui was what led me to believe that CF was something
that could be used by anyone with a mouse. And I was wondering
if that might be where it was heading. I had just read this:
> Tom Moore of Dayton, Ohio writes:
>
> The trend seems to be to have the "dummies" be the administrators. I
> just read an article about web servers which stated that even though
> Apache was the predominant server in the Internet today, it was
> "probably not suitable" for corporate use partly because it did not
> have a GUI for administration and therefore needed an experienced
> administrator to configure it. The inference seems to be that having a
> GUI means that anyone can simply point and click and set it up right.
> The same "logic" would probably be applied to sendmail vs MS Exchange.
> Since sendmail has a text configuration file, it needs an experienced
> administrator. Exchange has a GUI so it does not. Having worked with
> both, I do not believe this. Both set up quite easily in their default
> configuration. Both require administrative experience to do more
> sophisticated things. When you get to really complicated things like
> SPAM filtering, you cannot get there with Exchange.
on this page:
http://www.kirch.net/unix-nt.html#win95
Peter
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