[thelist] Fwd: Re: [thechat] Spectra

[Martin]

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Fortune Elkins wrote on 7/5/01 7:17 pm

>>why would anyone want spectra over vignette
>
>well actually, we're kinda looking at spectra here. until recently, vignette
>didn't do .asp, which we need, and furthermore it was based in tcl -- who
>the heck knows that<grin>?

Fatbrain's got quite a few. Tcl's not hard after all, it's just that it's
known
by as many people.

Vignette is now usable in Java, Tcl & ASP btw.

>we are pretty much a
>macromedia shop -- with UD, Flash, DW, on the web side and kawa on the heavy
>geek side. so that means spectra could be good for us -- if we could get a
>kawa-enabled spectra, that is! 

Yeah, that's a fair reason - go with what you know. Except that unless 
you've
got SuperSexy CF too, you're still on a learning curve. And until 
Allaire/MM
give a forward roadmap of where it's going, Spectra will continue to fall
behind.

Cheers
Martin

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