Thursday, January 28, 1999

NY Times editorial: Scripting the Last Act.

We got a nibble on our invitation to clone our XML-RPC-based search engine interface on Unix. Let's go all the way on this. Unix makes a great search engine platform. Let's wire it up to content management software running on Mac/Windows.

I wrote a sample script that submits today's Scripting News to Stephen's search engine running in New Zealand (and Apache) and it worked! I'm one happy dude.

SF Chronicle: Sony sues Connectix.

Wired: Amazon raises $1.25 billion in convertible debt.

InfoWorld: XML Data Architecture Debate.

News.com: Bluestone to ship an XML server. "What Bluestone does is allow you to ship and generate XML on the fly. But what's missing in the middle tier is persistence," said Viddorio Viarengo, Object Design's Excelon product manager." Incorrect!

Frontier 5.1 is a persistent XML object database. It's been shipping since mid 1998, the underlying object database has been shipping since 1992, and now Frontier 6 is around the corner. We also do content management. Check out Paul Howson's XMLTR suite. The other guys can't touch it. ODI can try to slice up the market, but the customers are too smart for that to work. Hopefully the reporters will get a clue too. Do a little digging, don't believe everything you read in ODI press releases.

Red Herring: EOffering Shakes Investment Banking. "EOffering, in proposing to undercut the seven percent IPO fee, is clearly attempting shake up the marketplace's hierarchy." Great news for entrepreneurs!

Mike Swaine wants to know what's going to bring the web down?

SJ Merc: Yahoo to buy GeoCities.

MacInTouch: Bell Atlantic ADSL Saga.

Ian Beatty likes the new net-based-2click feature, and sees it as a harbinger of what's-to-come. I think he's right. We have a pretty full pipe right now. Lots of new stuff in testing.