Re: My intro to the Xaraya Guide--Feel free to edit.

Jason Judge wrote in news:bmbses$g6u$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]:

> Perhaps 'expectations' is a better word than paradigms. A paradigm is
> quite a shift in thinking processes.

Good point - but neither word completely expresses for me (of course the 
fact that English is not my native language doesn't help in coming up 
with a better term :().

I think it's not so much a shift in thinking process but more a (new, or 
different) _approach_ to how concepts are put together and work together 
in the Xaraya system.

I do know that my original expectations were formed by Spectra - the 
first CMS I ever saw. I guess one can't avoid having expectations based 
on first view or experiences, whether negatively or positively. In the 
case of Spectra that was positively, and somewhat unconsciously this 
influenced the way I looked at OS CMSs when selecting one. Certainly 
Xaraya came closer than any other I've seen.

Unless one has never, ever come across a CMS, one will have 
expectations, and these will be different for everyone. Depending on 
those expectations (or lack of them), Xaraya *might* actually form 
another paradigm, or it may fit fit in with your paradigm and need only 
a slight adaptation, or somewhere in between.

Rambling a bit - but maybe it'll help someone to come up with a better 
term or description.


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