Re: WebCat vs. ASP
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texte = >I know this has been covered before, but could anyone who is familiar >with both of these technologies give my a comparison as for power/ease of >use compared to WebCat? I have looked at some of the available source and >it seems more like scripting than WebCat, is this a fair observation?ASP feels a lot more like programming than WebDNA does. A reviewer was kind enough to post the following short articles on the subject.Here's what a sample search looks like in Cold Fusion and ASP: http://databases.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa120198.htmHere's what the same thing looks like in WebDNA: http://databases.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa121098.htmAlso note that WebCatalog can connect to SQL databases just like those other two products do, but with the addition of its own internal high-speed databases, WebCatalog has the best of both worlds.We have customers who tell us stuff that used to take 3 pages of ASP can be down in a few lines of WebDNA. It's because WebDNA was written for the web right from the start, whereas ASP is basically the old Visual Basic hacked onto web pages.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>I know this has been covered before, but could anyone who is familiar >with both of these technologies give my a comparison as for power/ease of >use compared to WebCat? I have looked at some of the available source and >it seems more like scripting than WebCat, is this a fair observation?ASP feels a lot more like programming than WebDNA does. A reviewer was kind enough to post the following short articles on the subject.Here's what a sample search looks like in Cold Fusion and ASP: http://databases.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa120198.htmHere's what the same thing looks like in WebDNA: http://databases.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa121098.htmAlso note that WebCatalog can connect to SQL databases just like those other two products do, but with the addition of its own internal high-speed databases, WebCatalog has the best of both worlds.We have customers who tell us stuff that used to take 3 pages of ASP can be down in a few lines of WebDNA. It's because WebDNA was written for the web right from the start, whereas ASP is basically the old Visual Basic hacked onto web pages.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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