Webcatalog Future?!? - Was Re: &fieldsdir=ra truely random??
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texte = on 1/22/00 4:12 PM, Kenneth Grome at ken@simplewebstores.com wrote:>> Heh - PHP can do pretty much most of what WebCat can do and it's FREE! > > I know, I've been looking at it. The fact is, PHP is far better at parsing > text than any of webcat's unreasonably-limited text parsing routines. PCS > seems to be sleeping while faster better cheaper programs take over their > territory ... > > Even Steve Crisp's MGI is a breeze to setup in terms of eCommerce. Webcat is > *very* difficult in comparison ... > > What's more, MGI can limit its actions to only those items within the folder > hierarchy of the current templates. In other words, a pissed MGI customer > cannot trash other people's sites by uploading a MGI template. That makes it > SECURE, whereas webcat fails to offer this ability, so webcat sites can be > hacked by anyone with upload privileges. > > >> I wonder if SM is just tired of WebCat. > > Sure seems like it, doesn't it?For the often small to medium size (i.e.: between 100 and 5,000 items) for an e-commerce site we deal with, even the current version of MGI with a limited database engine would work fine... Our test of MGI are steering us away from any further development with Webcatalog in both e-commerce and non-e-commerce fashions... only thing we are waiting for is Steve to release a beta of MGI 2.0 running under Linux/Apache and we will be well on our way. The combination of individual hosting clients seclusion from each other, and the quickness at which even non-technical people have picked up MGI tag usage, except for very large e-commerce sites I could not see needing Webcatalog, and even that part may fall through... I have heard that MGI 2.0 will have built-in commands to sync multiple servers (could be wrong, could be that you can have multiple MGI systems pointing/accessing multiple database servers all integrated into a single product i.e.: MGI not sure yet) In any fashion, other companies are rapidly expanding e-commerce efforts, and SM seems more interested in making this a private hosting/development venture nowadays ...Just my 2 cents to boot. Janet Lane ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to
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on 1/22/00 4:12 PM, Kenneth Grome at ken@simplewebstores.com wrote:>> Heh - PHP can do pretty much most of what WebCat can do and it's FREE! > > I know, I've been looking at it. The fact is, PHP is far better at parsing > text than any of webcat's unreasonably-limited text parsing routines. PCS > seems to be sleeping while faster better cheaper programs take over their > territory ... > > Even Steve Crisp's MGI is a breeze to setup in terms of eCommerce. Webcat is > *very* difficult in comparison ... > > What's more, MGI can limit its actions to only those items within the folder > hierarchy of the current templates. In other words, a pissed MGI customer > cannot trash other people's sites by uploading a MGI template. That makes it > SECURE, whereas webcat fails to offer this ability, so webcat sites can be > hacked by anyone with upload privileges. > > >> I wonder if SM is just tired of WebCat. > > Sure seems like it, doesn't it?For the often small to medium size (i.e.: between 100 and 5,000 items) for an e-commerce site we deal with, even the current version of MGI with a limited database engine would work fine... Our test of MGI are steering us away from any further development with Webcatalog in both e-commerce and non-e-commerce fashions... only thing we are waiting for is Steve to release a beta of MGI 2.0 running under Linux/Apache and we will be well on our way. The combination of individual hosting clients seclusion from each other, and the quickness at which even non-technical people have picked up MGI tag usage, except for very large e-commerce sites I could not see needing Webcatalog, and even that part may fall through... I have heard that MGI 2.0 will have built-in commands to sync multiple servers (could be wrong, could be that you can have multiple MGI systems pointing/accessing multiple database servers all integrated into a single product i.e.: MGI not sure yet) In any fashion, other companies are rapidly expanding e-commerce efforts, and SM seems more interested in making this a private hosting/development venture nowadays ...Just my 2 cents to boot. Janet Lane ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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