Media 360
Anyone using Media 360 ? Any comments ? Anyone evaluating it ? I'm currently looking at it for a rich-media web site; lots of images / video / text content, and a very complex content-assembly task for each user session. There's also a production system that needs to support workflow and video editing to build and publish content. Thanks for any advice, -- Cats have nine lives, which is why they rarely post to Usenet.
In the year of Our Lord Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:32:35 +0000, Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> broke a vow of silence to utter: >Anyone using Media 360 ? > >Any comments ? Anyone evaluating it ? > >I'm currently looking at it for a rich-media web site; lots of images >/ video / text content, and a very complex content-assembly task for >each user session. There's also a production system that needs to >support workflow and video editing to build and publish content. Media 360 is more of a back office product than something you would use to create a website with. You would use it to manage content, rather than to present it. So it's perfect for your production system (has workflow built in, etc.) To present it, you would either use i.Reach, i.Sell or something else you use to build websites. HTH.
obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) a écrit : >Media 360 is more of a back office product than something you would use to >create a website I'd probably disagree with that, and Informix certainly do. Although many of the content managers just do the production side, not delivery, Media 360 claims to have the power to run a full-scale live site. Having seen Digeo's demo with it at Streaming Media (London), then I was impressed. It was the only impressive thing I saw at the whole show, and I don't impress easily. Can it scale up to large traffic volumes though ? Now _that_ is a good question..... >To present it, you would either use i.Reach, i.Sell or something else you use to >build websites. I don't think any of these can present our content. This site is a revolutionary breakthrough in semantics-based content assembly ( 8-) ) and my suspicion is that only my own hand-rolled code can do it. Unfortunately, my Boss is ex- film & broadcast media, and he just loves Media360. -- Cats have nine lives, which is why they rarely post to Usenet.
In the year of Our Lord Thu, 28 Dec 2000 15:40:38 +0000, Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> broke a vow of silence to utter: >obnoxio@hotmail.com (Obnoxio The Clown) a 'crit : > >>Media 360 is more of a back office product than something you would use to >>create a website > >I'd probably disagree with that, and Informix certainly do. Although >many of the content managers just do the production side, not >delivery, Media 360 claims to have the power to run a full-scale live >site. Mmmmmm....I sat through a rather scary warts-and-all presentation a couple of weeks ago, and the consensus of opinion from someone who had just done an implementation was what I have just regurgitated. >Having seen Digeo's demo with it at Streaming Media (London), then I >was impressed. It was the only impressive thing I saw at the whole >show, and I don't impress easily. Can it scale up to large traffic >volumes though ? Now _that_ is a good question..... Just to reiterate: although it's a web based technology, it's *not* a presentation level product (at the moment). It's far too version specific on each of it's components, for example (e.g. *only* works with IE5.01, not 4.x or 5.5, or even 5.0, not with Netscape Opera, only supports Netscape webservers, etc.) >>To present it, you would either use i.Reach, i.Sell or something else you use to >>build websites. > >I don't think any of these can present our content. This site is a >revolutionary breakthrough in semantics-based content assembly >( 8-) ) and my suspicion is that only my own hand-rolled code can do >it. Gesundheit! >Unfortunately, my Boss is ex- film & broadcast media, and he just >loves Media360. It's very good at what it does. But it is appalling at what it doesn't. :-)