More speculation: Macromedia and Allaire have been alike in their aim to simplify and speed up web development. Spectra's a good idea and a good product but it's not quite simple or cheap enough to sell to as many people as Dreamweaver, Flash or even ColdFusion. It wouldn't be surprising to see Spectra pushed in that direction or integrated into UltraDev/Studio to hide its complexity.
I also see Spectra functions being benefitial to smaller scale sites in a shared server environment. If ColdFusion could provide Spectra-like services at that level, it would be a boon to all CF developers and a competitive advantage. Spectra's pent up serving only higher end, dedicated server sites as it is.
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>>> "Dave DeVol" <daved@transferonline.com> 04/23/01 01:41PM >>> Pure speculation on my part. If we're going to speculate about what they are going to do then lets speculate big. It makes the most sense. I predicted the Macromedia/Allaire merge about 6months before it happened. It just made sense.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rastislav Toseak" <rastislavt@gtriad.com> To: "Spectra-Talk" <spectra-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: RE: Spectra Going Away?
> Hey, Dave D., I just would like to ask where did you get that information? > > "Spectra wrapped it into Cold Fusion." > > Is there any confident source of the information or it's just your thought?
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