Scott, I am not sure if it is true that Fed Govt will say no to any open source. We are using FarCry here on one of our largest public website for a Federal Govt Agency.
Thanks Qasim On Jan 31, 2008 2:42 PM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The feds general rule on Open Source is "no". > Exceptions being Apache, Sendmail and the like because either they offer > paid support or there's a third party authority who can provide support. > > I've downloaded FarCry, I'll play with it, but they really want something > retail.. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > SSTWebworks > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > (919) 874-6229 (home) > (703) 220-2835 (cell) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Paperthin's Commonspot > > >For my needs FarCry is out of the question because it's open source (most > >federal agencies poo poo anything that's open source off the bat, because > of > >support issues). > > Actually, that's not a completely accurate statement. The Daemonites have > released FarCry to the public under an open source license, true. > However, > most of the work done to the FarCry core is paid for by their clients. > Support, training, implementation, modification can all be obtained > through > Daemon. It's like other commercial offerings this way, but I'd venture a > guess that Daemon is more willing to help when it comes to system > modification. > > Now, will it meet your requirements the same way as CommonSpot? Depends > on > your needs. My understanding of CommonSpot is that it makes importing > existing content easy (at least according the docs). You can use a > WYSIWIG > editor to modify templates (again, from what I saw in the docs). You can > have a single authoring server and multiple front ends. These are things > that FarCry does not do (yet). > > I'm curious about this myself. I'll be meeting one of Dave Watt's team > members in the near future for a CommonSpot install. However, I'm only > responsible for the machine it resides on. I'll not be doing any > development on it. > > > Matthew Williams > Geodesic GraFX > www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
