New Message: This is insanely great...

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$244

By: Bill (lists at whalesong.org)

Excuse the somewhat 'over-the-top' subject but I just wanted to publicly thank the Userland Team for genuinely fantastic communication and publishing tools.

While by no means an expert in the world of cms/code/design or IT in general, I have been using online technologies long enough [1984] to know when I have tripped over a genuinely and in this case an insanely great piece of software.

It may be easy in the day to day thrust of userland discussion boards to forget how productive, valuable and inexpensively your software contributes to the productivity of thousands around the world.

In my simple case I have been wanting to support the growth in communication between a number of communities I work within. We are separated by many miles and have vastly different access to resources. After close examination of many many many options, I have chosen by far the *BEST* solution for us. Radio and Manila.

I am about to shortly launch a manila/frontier based site that will support 100's of users across three Municipalities. In every scenario I have envisaged, a manila/radio solution does more than we will need and in a manner that makes our limited resources remain where they are used best, at the point of publication/communication and knowledge sharing.

I have been independently testing our purchased copy of frontier for a few months
on an OSX X-Serve platform and could not be happier with the outcome.

The focus on the publishing hierarchy and membership based structure is, in my view a genuinely breathtaking, elegant solution. I don't pretend to understand the full capacity of this system, but it does most simply, elegantly and consistently what I don't believe any other alternative does, it allows people to work together, frst time, every time.

This is fundamentally the power, the complexity and simplicity of your products.

Well done. Don't stop. Build on it.

Cheers

Bill

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.