Tuesday, June 23, 1998

General Magic was awarded a patent for distributed computing based on movement. Close call! It's OK, because it wasn't a good idea. Remote procedure calling does what we need. I hope no one has a patent on that!

Paul Snively on mobile code. Lots of links.

Here's the best I could find on the vision of Telescript.

MacWEEK: MacHack top-10 list.

News.com: Microsoft shares soar on ruling.

News.com: Sybase targets financial services.

People are taking Don Hopkins too seriously. He's kind of a combination of Steve Martin and Butthead. Very smart, very wild dude, lots of fun at a party. You can't argue with his logic. He's just playing. Trust me.

TidBITS covers the upcoming Frontier 5.1 release.

Dan Gillmor is thankful no one asked him to cover the good side of Hitler.

Nexus is a 100-percent Java web server. Josh Lucas is psyched. "You can put this in any Java app and be able to allow HTTP requests and responses to interact with the app. Now that is cool. I've found something to play with today!"

News.com: Marimba ships Castanet 3.0.

InternetWeek: Marimba targets enterprise app developers.