Allaire Spectra

Allaire Spectra was an early web content management system developed by Allaire Corporation and later marketed by Macromedia as Macromedia Spectra.

Release history

 * Version 1.0 - released in 1999. Awarded Best of Show by Internet World Australia.
 * Version 1.0.1 - released in 2000, but initially contained a security vulnerability.
 * Version 1.5 - the last version released by Allaire before their merger into Macromedia in March 2001.
 * Version 1.5.1 - a performance and quality update, the last release to support Macromedia ColdFusion 5.
 * Version 1.5.2 - updated to support Macromedia ColdFusion MX and MX 6.1, released through a community source license.
 * "Dharma" was the codename of the next major release of Spectra (2.0) that was to support commerce, profiling, and personalization, but these features were incorporated into other products after the Macromedia acquisition.

Open-source release

 * Version 1.5.3 was the final release by Macromedia as open-source software in October 2003. Support for existing customers of version 1.5.x continued until December 31, 2003.

Books

 * Allaire Spectra E-Business Construction Kit by Ben Forta, Que. 2000-05-30. ISBN: 0789723654.