midrange.com -- midrange-nontech mailing listMailing list archive for midrange-nontech at midrange.comRe: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 15, 2008 Hmmm What part of a forum system do you think requires complex business logic I think I've already covered that. My point is, what you are dismissing as trivial is not trivial ... and that forum software is no less a business application than any other a...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00016.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 15, 2008 I am sure IBM has heard this before, "eat your own dog food" But the product presentation (of the Cafe) gets some of it's smarts from Yahoo Developer Network. That speaks volumes.http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00015.html RE: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 A community forum probably wouldn't be a good showcase for EGL because there are too many alternatives to compare with. And unless the EGL version was significantly better than others, it wouldn't send the "proper" message. Would an EGL version offer a be...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00014.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 Based on the description, I would consider the scheduler less of a business application than a forum system. JMO, of course. Hmmm What part of a forum system do you think requires complex business logic That's certainly a worthwhile function for a forum...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00013.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 Forum software makes companies money ... Jive software thinks so. And showcasing EGL's capabilities in a positive way would probably make IBM money. Based on the description, I would consider the scheduler less of a business application than a forum syste...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00012.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 I'm sure the EGL team would love to do a lot of things too. It's not like IBM has dozens of programmers sitting and twiddling their thumbs. Chris had to convince people that his time was well spent on the scheduler. Someone would have to make a business ca...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00011.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 I guess we'll have to disagree on this ... I consider a forum system as much a business application as a ERP system. FWIW, I'm pretty sure Jive software wrote the forum system in Java. In the case of midrange.com it wasn't a case of "the right tool for th...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00010.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 13, 2008 A forum is web application to access a database of messages (obviously this is greatly over simplified). I _think_ the software they are using (written by Jive Software, same company that writes the open source jabber server I use) uses MySQL as it's back...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00009.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 12, 2008 A forum is web application to access a database of messages (obviously this is greatly over simplified). I _think_ the software they are using (written by Jive Software, same company that writes the open source jabber server I use) uses MySQL as it's back...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00008.html Re: Idle curiosity about EGL Cafe ...- June 12, 2008 A forum is web application to access a database of messages (obviously this is greatly over simplified). I _think_ the software they are using (written by Jive Software, same company that writes the open source jabber server I use) uses MySQL as it's back...http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech/200806/msg00007.html |