Taken from the Spectra FAQ: "What is the difference between Allaire Spectra and ColdFusion? ColdFusion is Allaire's industry-leading Web application development platform with a community of hundreds of thousands of developers building sites today. Allaire Spectra is a new product family and Allaire's solution for organizations wishing to build large-scale systems that require advanced content management, e-commerce, and personalization capabilities. Allaire Spectra is built entirely with ColdFusion and requires the ColdFusion Enterprise Application Server. Interactive developers use Allaire Spectra's visual tools, along with ColdFusion Studio to build custom site implementations." It looks like Spectra is a set of services interfacing with ColdFusion, for creating applications in the three areas they advertise: content management, e-commerce and personalization. We might infer from this that they're focusing on e-commerce-enabled portals. It's a closed, proprietary, commercial system, as seen in this FAQ: "How much will Allaire Spectra cost? Allaire Spectra is priced at $7,495 per server and requires the ColdFusion Enterprise Application Server." ColdFusion EAS is in turn pretty expensive. (Although not expensive in enterprise terms. Just so expensive that somebody can't "install and play around with it".) In other words, everything Zope isn't and will never be. Good news, I think. They're not learning. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
-----Original Message----- From: Jay, Dylan [mailto:djay@lucent.com] Sent: 28. september 1999 03:26 To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: [Zope] Allaire Spectra
Has anyone had a good look at Allaire Spectra? It looks like Zope on steriods. Or at least marketed that way. Perhaps someone can do a feature for feature comparrison.
http://www1.allaire.com/products/Spectra
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