Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Oracle: Oracle's XML Strategy.

Be. They announced lots of things tooooday.

The independent XML-RPC mail list is starting to get interesting. It's not owned by anyone, I have no idea who is on the list. It's the ideal venue for organizing cross-platform, cross-OS interapplication communication protocols and software.

4/2/98: "We want people developing in Frontier to be the most powerful developers on the Internet." That's why we need an independent group to manage XML-RPC. We are a commercial vendor with a well-established interest in making Frontier people the most competitive web developers. Also, a postscript to the SCNS design, it didn't make it into 5.0.2 (which actually was called 5.1) but I'm going to push for it in 6.0.

The WebDAV thread continues. Alex Hopmann, the lead on WebDAV at Microsoft, responded to my experiment with folder loops in XML-over-HTTP. He says that the WebDAV approach is not much more complicated. This in an example of collaborative development, in public, with Microsoft.

BTW, I knew Alex before he worked at Microsoft, he was a fellow board member of MIDAS, the Macintosh Internet Developer Association. It was an attempt by Mac developers, a couple of years ago (pre-Jobs), to get the Mac Internet software market going in a positive direction.

From Microsoft's PR firm, news about XQL.

Are you using Dreamweaver 2.0? James Spahr is just getting started and has comments.

Aladdin Systems: Stuffit Deluxe 5.0.

Do you wonder when the Mail Pages are coming back?

NY Times: At the Microsoft trial, truth is the big loser. Read the end of this piece, and remember that Apple stole the look and feel of the Mac from Xerox. The article says even Judge Jackson was laughing (at Microsoft). I ask whether he's sober enough to make the decision in this very important case, not just for Microsoft, but for the whole computer industry.

Eric S. Raymond expresses his true feelings about Microsoft and Bill Gates. There's always room for another point of view, and a proper time and place to express it.

Finally, a nice joke to end the day. {qbullet.imageref ("sidesmiley")}