Re: Blowback and budgets.
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texte = on 1/24/00 11:09 PM, David A. Bryant at dbryant@jump.net wrote:> All the web catalog talkers have been quite responsive to my questions > and I thank all of you, but if you all had to take a vote today, and by > show of hands I'd like a tally, who today would purchase WebCatalog > right off the cyberstore shelf knowing what they know now? Whether > Unix, NT, or Mac solution, would you buy it?If we added up all of the pro's and con's we have found over the last few years I would say: No. There are many pro's to WebCatalog, don't get me wrong, but for our needs there have turned out to be a lot of con's as well. Currently if I was a 1,000+ person company in 3 states and 2 countries, in need of a development team, possibly in each local and this needed to run both intra and internet information across multiple servers, again No. If I was a hosting company with 500 hosting clients, 1/2 of which want it both ways, full FTP access AND a custom database back-end, again No. If I was running a single server for a project I would be writing myself, or possibly with a couple of other development staff, had extremely limited development time and budget, in simple terms, Yes I would buy it again.No product is the right product for every type of job.Janet Lane (I promise I really am leaving ;) ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to
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on 1/24/00 11:09 PM, David A. Bryant at dbryant@jump.net wrote:> All the web catalog talkers have been quite responsive to my questions > and I thank all of you, but if you all had to take a vote today, and by > show of hands I'd like a tally, who today would purchase WebCatalog > right off the cyberstore shelf knowing what they know now? Whether > Unix, NT, or Mac solution, would you buy it?If we added up all of the pro's and con's we have found over the last few years I would say: No. There are many pro's to WebCatalog, don't get me wrong, but for our needs there have turned out to be a lot of con's as well. Currently if I was a 1,000+ person company in 3 states and 2 countries, in need of a development team, possibly in each local and this needed to run both intra and internet information across multiple servers, again No. If I was a hosting company with 500 hosting clients, 1/2 of which want it both ways, full FTP access AND a custom database back-end, again No. If I was running a single server for a project I would be writing myself, or possibly with a couple of other development staff, had extremely limited development time and budget, in simple terms, Yes I would buy it again.No product is the right product for every type of job.Janet Lane (I promise I really am leaving ;) ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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