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To: Jonathan Lebed who wrote (71)	5/9/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: Brasco One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 278

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To: Jonathan Lebed who wrote (71)	5/10/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Owen Vaughan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 278

'The tools of the two companies are very similar' no, the tools are quite different. They can be used together. NETO is for building the actual site. ALLR's cold fusion allows, I think, CGI scripting. So if you are developing a complex site you need both pieces of software.

To: Jonathan Lebed who wrote (71)	5/10/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Cesare J Marini	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 278

The tools of the two companies are very similar. No, they aren't. ALLR makes a product called ColdFusion, which is a database connectivity solution that developers use to create web pages that contain live data within them. It provides the functionality that CGI scripting does. ALLR also makes a web-page development tool, but it is text-based, not visual. NETO makes a visual web-page development tool, and a very poor one at that. From what I am hearing...if you are building a WWW biz...NetObjects software is a must have,, over the other well-known programs, such as FrontPage. Well, then you're "hearing" things completely different from what I am actually seeing, because if you ask any serious web designer what tool they use, it's NOT Fusion. I go to the trade shows, the web developer groups, and talk directly with developers. Most wouldn't touch Fusion with a ten foot pole. As for FrontPage, it seems to be roundly beating Fusion for development of small-business sites. By the way, IBM's OWN DEVELOPERS don't like Fusion. Not exactly a good sign.