Let me answer a couple of questions that have come up:
1) On Morfik, since I brought it up: Morfik is definitely different. It took me a little while to get my brain wrapped around why it made sense, but it does to me now, so here goes (straight from http://prerelease.labs.morfik.com) The "Express" edition is for people who aren't building commercial apps (individuals, students, etc.). There are two "Professional" editions: The "free for startups" version is just that. The straight Pro edition is LIST PRICE $5,000, however they are accepting new applications to the "Pioneers" program and preorders at a big discount (65%?) until...sometime. The per-seat price includes everything. You buy the Professional edition, you get a perpetual license, and you can build and deploy as many systems, servers, etc. as you like without paying anything more. It includes the application server, database server, and web server along with the rest of it. I believe they are trying to compete with M$, so they intentionally gave away the deployments to attract corporate and professional developers. So, in more ways than one it is different. The packaging is different, the pricing is different. 2) On AJAX/FJAX: If you've used Gmail or Google Maps you will immediately recognize that there is a significant difference between AJAX apps and your run-of-the-mill web apps. Speed. Smoothness. Shortcuts. You can't get the same feel from straight XHTML. The XML portion is a way to speed the information transfer process. Instead of reloading the web page every time you pull up a new record, only the changed data can be transferred, which means significant speed savings, and no flashing blinking screen when your browser reloads the page just to display the data from another record...err card. In addition, the opening "A" in "AJAX" stands for "Asynchronous", which means that your application can and does cache data, so that it is already in your browser waiting for you when you do something. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution