Thank you Niall, A very interesting perspective from someone so fresh to Witango - with many powerful points in our favor given your years with ASP. By the way, we try not to call Witango by it's former name anymore - an inside joke from the recent Conference, plus we're looking to a whole new future not available under the former owners of the product :-)
Here's a bit of information and a question. Yes, you can assign your Witango database Actions with Dynamic Datasource Variables (from an include or TCF) for when you need to change DSN connection information at a later time. Or even if you want to run one set of TAFs and TCFs in a multi-Domain environment. Here's a link with some information on how to do this. http://xml-extra.net/webpage.xmlx?node=41 Question, why do you list "Ports to three web servers (APACHE, MAC, IIS)" as a Con? In fact Witango also runs on Netscape Servers and can run on Linux and Solaris as well as Mac and Windows. I think this is a Pro. Welcome aboard buddy. Cheers.... Scott Cadillac http://xml-extra.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP, Research and Development Plus International Corp. 604-460-1843 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plusinternational.com Vancouver, BC, Canada Does your company have an Enterprise Information Portal? Check out Salsa at www.plusinternational.com/flash/salsa.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niall Merrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: RE: Tango / ASP Death Match > <SNIP> > > OK guys here is where i might come into my own > > I am an ASP programmer by design, I have been programming in ASP for close > to four years. I think I have been coding in Tango for 4 weeks at most > > Here as what I found the pluses and minuses for both technologies > > For ASP: > > 1. Ships FREE with IIS > 2. Native instruction > 3. Huge developer base (VB, VBA, VBS programmers amd JavaScript) > 4. BIG ONE FOR ME: Can include the DSN as an include file (please dont > flame if you can do this in tango ...just show me) > 5. Can be coded without using specialised editors > > For Tango > > 1. Bloody quick development (RAD++) > 2. Nice design interface > 3. Fairly easy to learn if you have done previous server side development > 4. Brilliant COM+ support > > > > Cons ASP > > 1. Known vunerabilities (translatef bug etc) > 2. Runs on IIS > 3. Can be messy if you mix languages (JScript and VBScript) > 4. Portability an issue (needc third party plugins) > 5. Slower Dev time (from code to ship) > > Cons Tango > > 1. Not as wide a user base > 2. Runs on top IIS > 3. Added cost (Buy Dev + App Server) > 4. Ports to three web servers (APACHE, MAC, IIS) > 5. Hard to code without Tango editor > > > Now I have quite easily managed to integrate the two languages (running > from asp to tango and back again). > > Now to put a few points to rest ... ASP can run on Apache (via Chillisoft > ChilliASP and ChilliSpice (CDONTS support) this will also run ASP on > Solaris) > > As for scalable .. its six of one, half dozen of another. Portability is > virtually the same (unless you change DSNs and then its a bit of a > nightmare Tango side) > > I am not too sure of execution times or server times when running either > lanague on simliar type apps > > But I will put it this way .. for your ASP programmers this will be > another language they can learn (something to put on their CV!). I am > managing to do it, even if it takes a little shift in my mind-set > > It seems futile to re-invent the wheel when the app is developed. You > might be in an ideal situation because both type of developers will be > able to give each other ideas > > Just my 0.02c (go Euro!) > > > Regards > > Niall > > > > > -- > Niall Merrigan > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
