[thelist] Evaluation of ChiliSoft

on 01/18/2000 7:31 AM, Burns, Martin at BURNSM@rbos.co.uk wrote:

> Now that we've gone down the road of a content management
> system which allows us to deploy to multiple servers, not
> necessarily running the same operating system (some will
> be NT, some will probably be Sun), we need an application
> server which will get the content out of the database and
> out to the web server.
> 
> I know the obvious solution is CF, but in the interests of
> leveraging the existing ASP skillset internally, it was
> suggested that we look at ChiliSoft to deliver ASP pages
> from Sun boxes.
> 
> Does anyone (Scott?) have experience of ChiliSoft's version
> of ASP that they'd like to comment on?
> 
>

I know this isn't an answer for you Martin (I don't know anything about
ChiliSoft - except I hear that you can't use all of the COM stuff with it),
but I got thinking about this.

Have you looked into Java Server Pages?  There is a product from Allaire
called JRun for jsp's, and there's GnuJsp and Apache Jakarta for
Solaris/Linux/*nix (along with Apache Jserv for servlets). Sun has a lot of
standards available, and there seems to be a lot of interest. (and you can
run a dev environment on a Mac).

I'm just curious to see if it was considered, and if so what the thoughts of
the Techs/managers/guys who write you checks thought.


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bob davis
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