I am just going through the process of defining the roadmap for the future releases of the ccs.
Some things that come to mind as strong candidates (in no particular order) are: - built in payment gateway support for standalone mode (without Platypus), for 2-3 providers: Verisign, authorize.net? - support of .uk, .us (.de, .cn?) top level domains - email, emaildefence - dns - digital certificates Please weight in - what would you like to see first? Feel free to contact me off list as well. Thanks, Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Lee Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Zeljko Dimic; [email protected] Subject: Re: [domains-gen] CCS - a missed opportunity (Platypus - where next) Hi, I agree with most the points Alan raised here. With regards to PHP5 - I don't feel this should be a disadvantage to the CCS project, maybe in the short-term the take-up mightn't be that if the code was based upon PHP4, but it takes commercial entities like Tucows to start using PHP5 to keep things progressing (providing they make use of the new elements available in PHP5). PHP5 has it's benefits, especially for those doing more OOP. Platypus - maybe this isn't necessarily for this list, but now that Tucows are pushing forward with integration between CCS and Platypus I'll mention it here. Platypus is a very feature full application combined with Wombat it's a good billing/ticket system. Major downfalls are the requirements to have MSSQL - for it to be used in our environment and integrated into existing systems it really needs the database backed to be MySQL. It also simply lacks some of the features that a required for non-US users: For example here in the UK, we must produce a VAT Invoice - these are raised in Platypus, but Platypus will only email a statement and not a true Invoice. So what's next? Where do you see CCS going and how do you see future integrations progressing (i.e. Security Certs)? Regards, Lee. Alan DeRossett wrote: hi , we run a couple hundred hosting clients on three servers all using Cpanel or Plesk our most recent update of php is 4.3.10 everything is working fine. I'm certinly not going to upgrade php and cause clients problems. Maybe on a new server I'll try tucows php scripts but we must be able to use our own MySQL for our own Billing system. Platapus is not a solution for us as it does not use JPOS iso 8583 messages. The Zend requirement is out of the question. And then there's price Tucows Wholesale rate to us is almost 30% more then Several other registers. Alan DeRossett Digital Starlight I am Product Manager in charge of CCS development, and it would help me to understand what exactly are server requirements that look unreasonable. Except for few customers having problem installing PHP, I did not get much of the negative feedback, so I'd like to know how can we make it better. I happen to think that installation process of CCS itself is extremely easy, and it looks great and is very usable. So apparently problem are platform requirements. If you can point out specifics, it may help me making it easier for the next release. Feel free to contact me off list. Thanks, ------------------------------------ Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON, M6K 3M1 Canada tel: 416.535.0123 x 1256 fax: 416.531.5584 ------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
