Tuesday, July 21, 1998

Bay Area Frontier User's Group meets tomorrow in San Francisco at 7PM. Some people have asked if I will be there, and I think it's best that I not be there. It's a user's group, and I'm the vendor. I think it's important for it to get going, and then if you want to invite me to come, I will happily attend. I think it's great that there's a Bay Area group forming!

NY Times reviews AOL.COM.

TechWeb: XML plays central role in retooling for E-commerce. If you want to know how XML is about money, check this out.

The first XML-RPC piece from February of this year. We've come a long way very fast.

Wired: Ballmer is the new Microsoft president.

Two recent job openings on the Class Ads site. Please use this service if you're looking for a job or have a position to fill, also for announcements that would be of interest to Scripting News readers.

Internet.com: Privacy flaw in Communicator 4.5?

MSNBC: Informix, Oracle will port to Linux.

ZDNet UK: Netscape to ship Linux server.

GCN: Navy 'Smart Ship' dead in the water.

Interactive Week: Road Runner Retools.

Yesterday's Goodwill Games photos.

NY Times: Y2K at home.

TidBITS: Sues spammer and chastizes Symantec for dropping the Mac version of VisualPage.

InfoWorld: Microsoft FrontPage 2000.

Here's a open proposal for an Linux-style open source project. The components would be an HTTP client-server, a simple XML parser, and a routing system that handles plug-ins. (Build it into Apache?)

The format could be our XML-RPC or one that's bridgeable to it. Here's a place where the Linux open source community could shine and lead the rest of the industry in a very visible way. Next step, port to BeOS, Solaris, Mac OS, Windows, the Java VM. Let's end the OS wars, build bridges between environments and across OSes.