ON THE ANDREESSEN APOLOGY
ON THE ANDREESSEN APOLOGY
Sent: 7/8/96; 2:24:48 PM
From: richard@lymehouse.com (Richard Careaga)
It's not easy to deliver a graceful apology that admits you were wrong and the other guy was right. Good job.
If you can get Netscape to port their servers over to Mac-land, you'll be in a position to do something neither Unix nor NT does well, which is to stitch together the server and the desktop. The problem is that events happen and you want your site to respond appropriately--serve a document, take a message, fetch a record, whatever--without human intervention. You can do this in Unix without a problem, but the number of sites is growing faster than the number of qualified Unix people. You can do this in NT, sort of, at enormous effort and total lack of flexibility because NT is desk-bound: It really expects that there's someone attached to a keyboard wanting to do something. Only there's no scripting to speak of.
What makes scripting so attractive, of course, is that you figure out how to do something once and teach the server to do it for you as if you were there. Lots of people who will never program can see themsevles doing that.
BTW: Been to an Egghead lately? In September, Win 95 stuff was flying off the shelf. Today, it's very quiet in those sections. I'll bet you a beer there are people meeting in Redmond this minute talking about re-inventing their core competency. They better win the browser war; by the end of the year the browser will start replacing the shell.
-- LYMEHOUSE LLC Richard Careaga mailto:ceo@lymehouse.com http://www.lymehouse.com/devoto http://www.lymehouse.com/devoto.html (lower bandwidth)
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