Spectra
Beginner
I heard that Spectra is going to be discontinued. Is it true?
Not strictly. However, whilst there are no plans to drop Spectra, in future it will be supported and maintained by the user community. What follows is from Margaret Waters at Macromedia:
This Spring we announced that the current version of Spectra, release 1.5, would be the last feature-added release. We're re-architecting Spectra's core technology, the Content Object API (COAPI) for inclusion in the next major release of ColdFusion, code-named Neo. We will continue to support Spectra for two years from the date of the announcement, until May 31st, 2001.
Spectra has always shipped with a community source license -- meaning once you've bought a Spectra license, you can inspect and modify the source code and submit bug fixes and modfications to the company. We'll continue this program and will release code fixes and modifications through the Macromedia Spectra Community Source site, available to all existing Spectra customers, at SpectraSource.Macromedia.com.
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