Thanks to everyone who helped with tips on shareware CGI scripts. You've 
certainly given me plenty to investigate.

- --Jeff

On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Ed Van 
Ness wrote:

> Jeff Perlman wrote:
> > 
> > I've visited a number of WWW sites recommended by participants of this
> > list where CGI scripts are used to handle surveys, trivia quizes, etc.
> > But I need help finding the actual off-the-shelf code employed in the
> > scripts themselves. Anybody know whether there is such shareware, and
> > where I might get it?
> > --Jeff
> 
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> If you are looking for rapid development of interactive web applications, I would 
> strongly suggest you download the the 30-day evaluation version of Allaire Cold 
> Fusion (http://www.allaire.com/cfusion/>. Cold Fusion allows you to rapidly develop 
> and deploy applications without a detailed knowledge of a language like PERL, and 
> there is a healthy community of Cold Fusion users who share techniques at the Cold 
> Fusion support forum. Cold Fusion has an impressive pedigree of huge institutions 
> that are using it, including NASA, Bayer, Compuserve, Digital, Intel, and 
> Microsoft. The product is not shareware, but compared to incredibly less 
> functional tools for any platform, it is a steal.  Also, if you contact Allaire, I 
> know that one of their technical support representatives has authored a 
> general-purpose survey builder with a web-based front-end which would let you do 
> online surveys with "off the shelf" Cold Fusion templates.
> 
> If you would like to see a few places Cold Fusion is in use, the above Allaire URL 
> has a "sites" button which will direct you to a long list. Most recently we have 
> used it to deploy the first phase of Piper Jaffray's website 
> (www.piperjaffray.com), including a retirement calculator. We have also used it to 
> make Farm Journal Today (www.farmjournal.com) entirely data-driven, with usage and 
> clickstream data logged to an SQL database. 
> 
> Cold Fusion is available for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
> 
> Ed Van Ness
> Creative Internet Solutions
> http://www.creativeis.com/
> evanness@creativeis.com
> 

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