Thursday, February 05, 1998

"Mail Starting 2/5/98".

Tcl spins out of Sun and becomes Scriptics.

New Microsoft scripting releases: server scriptlets, scriptlet wizard, script control for Visual Basic, and script debugger. Windows 95 and NT.

CNN: Senator Hatch warns Microsoft. Says software giant faces heavy regulation if it dominates Internet

Time: How I Survived the Unabomber.

We're working on a direct mail piece. Feedback is appreciated.

Vignette: Ad hoc group forms to study asset-exchange protocols.

NY Times: Karla Tucker is dead, but the debate continues.

The Boston Globe proposes that Netscape reform itself around the Linux operating system. I pretty much agree. In August 1995 I said Netscape needed to combine with a popular operating system. Today I'd go with the Globe and recommend Linux. It's too late to do a deal with Apple, they already have a Microsoft deal.

Philadelphia Daily News: Ted Williams goes to bat for Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Is Netscape for sale? News.com, Wired News.

Some people feel this Perl implementation for Windows is the best one.

A new Apple TV ad. They're selling performance!

With a scripting environment that runs on the fastest G3s (as a native PowerPC app) and the fastest Pentium IIs, we're in a unique position to evaluate the claim. Could we get an independent group together to build and run some benchmarks? We'd be happy to host a mail list and link websites together. This would have the side-benefit of spotting performance bottlenecks in Frontier, which would help us make it faster.

TechWeb: Be is alive and kicking.