[thelist] Am I going mad with this White Paper?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff [SMTP:jeff@members.evolt.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:24 PM
> To:	thelist@lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	Re: [thelist] Am I going mad with this White Paper?
> 
> from this whitepaper it seems pretty clear to me that this product does
> not
> extract the data, that an application server of some variety would be
> necessary.  after looking their site over quite well i can't really figure
> out for sure if they offer an application server of any kind.
[Burns, Martin]  They don't, but what our guy seems to be debating is
whether
you need one at all. Which doesn't make sense.

>   it looks more
> like a content entry system, but not a content delivery system.  seems
> kinda
> odd to leave out the most obvious piece of the puzzle.
[Burns, Martin]  Very much how they sell themselves is that they fit into
only
one space in a complex set of eCommerce architectures. So if you have a
number of systems across the enterprise (say one uses Broadvision, another
uses CF, another uses ASP, another uses WebSphere etc etc etc, on a
range of server platforms), you can use one content management system
to deliver to any and all of them.

If you're only putting together one architecture for a single homogenous
offering, then integrating the CM & App Server makes sense (and you go
and buy Spectra).

>   at the same time
> though, if they had an application server, why did they use the cold
> fusion
> server as an example of how to deliver the content?  wouldn't they just
> use
> their own as an example?
[Burns, Martin]  That was my thought too.

> i'd do as another list member has suggested and email them directly and
> ask
> them pure and simple "htf do you get the data out?"
> 
[Burns, Martin]  
We're seeing them (again) later this week - I wanted to be sure of my facts
before I asked the question. But you've confirmed my suspicions, thanks.

Martin Burns
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