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from all those cash infusions* from microsoft, Baystar, and Royal Bank of Canada.
I expect the 60 million got invested into the pump-n-dump also, so there should be
plenty to stick in MySQL's G-string.

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http://uk.builder.com/0,39026540,39338281,00.htm
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_ 948.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/105522 3
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5057033.html

I know postgresql at one point unintentionally used one of IBM's patents. They removed/rewrote the code though, since they use the BSD license. Using IBM's patent would prevent people from close-sourcing it without negotiating a license from IBM.

I'm sure these had no effect on DirectX taking off:

Microsoft claim shakes graphics world
3D graphics world shaken by patent claims
Standards stalled over royalty disputes
Microsoft clarifies OpenGL position...sort of
OpenGL 1.4 unveiled

Do you *NEED* .NET? Can you learn something else? Something cross platform, maybe? Surely there's something out there that will do the job?

Microsoft claim shakes graphics world

3D graphics world shaken by patent claims

Standards stalled over royalty disputes

Microsoft clarifies OpenGL position ... sort of

OpenGL 1.4 unveiled

Unfortunately, dotNET and COM don't exactly match the cross-platform ideal, and seeing how Mono was treated by MS at the latest MS Developer Conference, MS isn't concerned about increasing or maintaining dotNET's presence on other platforms.

http://uk.builder.com/programming/windows/0,390266 18,39265898,00.htm

So dotNET is GREAT for MS people.

Java may have been THE language, but with JRuby, Jython, Groovy, and others, it no longer is, and since Groovy is now a JSR, this practice has Sun's religious approval.

Knowing what to search for brings up these relevant links:
EDIFACT
X12
How Radio Frequency Identification Affects EDI
Integration for Logistics: RFID, EDI, XML, and Beyond

If you are using an off-the-shelf inventory/billing system they you should probably consider letting someone else handle the integration and format-translation.

I have implemented an EDI system from scratch at my previous company. It was based on EDIFACT and email, and had extensive tracking&tracing, status feedback, error handling. The major challenge in implementing and EDI system is the integration with your EDI partners. It took 3 months from start of testing to the first real EDI message getting through, and almost a year before the workflow was right. Another challenge is that touches on legal responsibility - who said what, why, when.

I believe that ROI was good. No more manually entering 5 batches of 100 items every day. And the deadlines were improved so the final information set could be imported half an hour before work was initiated.

As far as I know the system is still chugging along 5 years after I left the company.

Sun announced back in June that it was putting JDS on the low priority list. That alone makes this deal surprising. More than that, getting Indonesia to switch to JDS is quite a feat considering what a failure JDS has been to this point.

Failure #1: Bad PR from Sun's own supporters that the first JDS came out not on Solaris, but on Linux. It is also rejected by a great deal of the Linux crowd because they already know how to get just about everything that JDS provides, short of Star Office, which is of course the Linux crown simply replaced with Open Office.

Failure #2: Sun partners with a virtually unknown PC company to sell JDS-installed PCs to the masses. The problem is that the PCs were sold only through Wal-Mart's web site. I don't know who the brain was who thought such a distribution method was viable, but I hope that person is now unemployed. Who the HELL would possibly think that tech-minded people who are looking for a Windows alternative would think, "Oh, yeah! Let's check out Wal-Mart! They're just so techie! Hey, get those Best Buy, NewEgg, and Circuit City web sites of my screen!"

Failure #3: PROFIT!!! Er ... wait ... wrong list ...

Well, I certainly hope that this works out for Sun. I love Sun hardware and Solaris. But thus far their foray into the "Windows desktop replacement" genre has been a great deal less than admirable. These Asian deals are their third attempt at raising this phoenix from its ashes. If JDS doesn't pan out this time, Sun needs to enforce a "three strikes, JDS is out" rule.

No, the original point was that you said " guess the other thing is that Apache/PHP seems to scale better (or at least easier/cheaper [internetnews.com] than Tomcat." The article you link to doesn't mention java or tomcat at all. The presentation that is linked from the article doesn't mention tomcat but it does say good things about java/jsp/j2ee but they couldn't use it because freebsd's threading sucks. I should have known better than to start a discussion with someone that cites an article to back up his claim when it doesn't even mention what he's claiming.

"What would are some very large sites using jsp, which for all the links you posted, you haven't been able to show.More and larger sites use php than jsp. I pointed out ebay, which is still using dlls for much of it's heavy load. You brought up playboy, which seems to be mostly a static site running some cgi scripts: http://cyber.playboy.com/cgi/ab.cgi."

eBay used to use a dll. The dll is their old architecture, when they finish the migration the dll will disapear. eBay is a complicated site and the migration will take time. A lot of ebay is currently running on websphere. You can't easily tell because they don't use the .jsp extention for their files. That's a big site. They may have 1/3rd the traffic of yahoo but their profits and revenues are about the same. Playboy does use java. I think they use a mixture of JBoss and Tomcat. Just because a page says .html doesn't mean it's a static page. A lot of times, I've noticed this with JBoss especially, files look like html but they're not. You can see this at the sims online too, which also uses jboss. Look at this url from playboy http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playmate.html?sour ce=playmate_sectionfront since when can you pass query parameters to STATIC HTML? We used this technique with sites I've worked on as well where we set up our container to recognize .html files as jsps. If you look at netcraft.com for the server info you'll see playboy.com uses mod_jk whick is the connector to Tomcat. Sometimes it's hard to tell what sites use java since many times they'll use a servlet controller that calls the jsp's behind the scenes. Sometimes you'll see a .do which is the typical way to use Struts, but not always. Here's a bit of info on capital one they use java for a lot of their stuff. I think they use oracle's application server. B&H Photo uses java for their ecommerce site (Probably the most popular online photo/video retailer) but you can't easily tell from looking at the urls unless you know what to look for. bnh is the servlet context, controller is the main servlet handler and home is a page handler. Years ago they used to use Bluestones application server. Now it seems they're just using Netscape Enterprise Server. If your brouse certain sites with cookies disabled you can sometimes see a jsessionid in the url, that's a sign it's running a java web container. Verizon Online uses Java for their clients web email and a bunch of other support functions. Have a look at Bea's Client list among some other big names you'll find Amazon.com and FedEx. Ofoto.com, now Kodak Easy Share, uses jsp. Here's a story on jboss writing their own postnuke style cms in java because php didn't scale as well. These are just the few I could remember off the top of my head. And I've done my own benchmarks for m

No, just GNU.org http://uk.builder.com/manage/work/0,39026594,20277 728,00.htm

This is why in Europe both, the free software community and the small and middle sized corporations are all fighting hard to prevent software patents: http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
The Linus defense http://uk.builder.com/manage/work/0,39026594,20276 078,00.htm of not researching what patents you might infringe will help you a bit by possibly avoiding punitive damages when/if you get sued, since you can claim not to have infringed willfully on a patent. But it won't decrease your lawyer bills for defending yourself in the slightest and neither will it decrease the future licensing costs. So if you are stepping on any big corporation's toes or are in the same business as another, failing company (*cough*SCO*cough*), it is highly likely you might get sued successfully for infringement

Part of that is correct, except that china, like many of us, essentially doesn't trust microsoft. The chinese have for a long time been supporters of linux as seen in this article here and here

I'm not a big fan of 2.0 right now. It works as a stand-alone server, serving static pages, but the multi-threaded model [which runs] on UNIX is not quite there in many cases. Individual applications that don't rely on a whole slew of different third party libraries can be written to be very thread safe, very nice and very fast. But general-purpose stuff like PHP and PERL which tie into so many different libraries [are more of a concern because] we don't know if those libraries are safe or not. My concern with PHP and Apache 2.0 right now is that if we go Apache 2 with a threaded MPM at this point, there is a lot of stuff that will break. I don't think there is a compelling reason to switch to Apache 2.0 at this point, there is no killer feature. Apache 1.3 does the job. There are some killer features in the pipeline, when they get completed, and when they work, we will make all this stuff work under Apache 2.0, but right now it's a lot of work with very little benefit. It will take a couple of years still before Apache 2.0 and PHP will work well.

Honestly, I use google 75% of the time. I also use w3schools, and frequent alistapart, Microsoft,
Builder.com, and my favorite devX.

as I can throw them. A couple of years ago, their builder.com had a free message board, The Builder Buzz, that was an excellent source of knowledge for all things related to web design/programming. All of the content was user created. Then, when CNet realized they were bleeding money, they decided to cut everybody off and charge for access to the Buzz. We could no longer access the posts that we had written, some of which we spent a great deal of time on.

Hopefully, this won't happen to gamefaqs, as it is another one of my favorite sites. I do think there is a glimmer of hope due to the fact that the licensing of the FAQs on gamefaqs is spelled out pretty plainly, but frankly, I would not put it past cnet to pull some legal trickery to get around it.

• http://www.phpbuilder.com - PHP, some real world examples.
• http://www.devshed.com - PHP, Perl, Python and more.
• http://www.php.net - PHP
• http://www.perl.com - Perl
• http://www.coveryourasp.com - ASP, all real world examples.
• http://www.builder.com - C, C++, Java, Perl, Python and more.
• http://www.devcentral.com - C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl and more.
• http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html - C FAQ.

• Programming Perl - Perl
• The C Programming Language - C
• The C++ Programming Language - C++
• PHP and MySQL Web Development - PHP and MySQL. All real world examples.

As much as I would Microsoft to up and go away, well, these ads are not going to kill IE. IE is just too easy to get, runs all the stuff people want, and it comes on their Windows boxes.

However, sites that use these features are likely to lose users. Yeah, they'll keep their techy users who use Mozilla, etc., but their joe-average users will disappear. (Why should I read Boston.com when I can read CNN.com and get none of those crappy ads?)

Case in point is that I almost never visit C|Net or ZDNet anymore. The ads are lousy. The content doesn't justify the annoyance. I use to read Builder.com all the time. Now I just visit Molly.com and see where her latest articles are.

Reality is that advertising is only tolerated as long as it's justified. I click on the ads on Slashdot because they're well targetted. I read BBC News because there are no ads. I used to watch Sci-Fi because there were fewer ads. If it really comes down to it, eventually I'll only visit government sites and my paid subscriptions because like many a business user, I don't have time to wait the 5 seconds on a page while checking to see if an article is worth reading.

Err, reading Slashdot is an efficient means through which I can stay current on various developments within the computing industry, thus allowing me to more effectively do my job.

1. Older browsers can't see them, and if someone's been ignoring those "Upgrade Your Browser So You Can See My Site!" noframes notices for this long, they're certainly NOT going to upgrade just for you.

2. Most search engine robots can't go through frames sites. If they can't go through, you can't get indexed. If you can't get indexed, nobody finds your site.

3. Bookmarking, Bookmarking, Bookmarking. You want people to bookmark your site, right? Do you really expect them to bookmark the first page of your site and THEN go surfing to the correct page every time they want to see something? Alternatley, if they DO know about the right-click bookmark frame page trick, you're going to have to have ALL the navigation you had frames to take care of on each one of those pages so people can get around if they're going to a single bookmarked/linked page.

4. Many many people find those scrollbars everywhere incredibly annoying. You can't use ANY kind of tiled background (when you scroll, the background doesn't match up, looks dumb..but so do tiled backgrounds)

Okay. Now, the reasons people use frames.

1. Ease of navigation.
If your site depends on frames to give it good navigation, you need help. It's NOT that hard to implement a good table-based navigation scheme that doesn't have the problems of the frames-based design.

2. Pages don't have to reload.
Yes, it will speed up your current site, but if you REALLY need frames to give it that extra little speed increase you really need to learn image optimization and alternate ways of doing design that don't involve huge graphics.

3. Can change one frame file and all the pages are changed.
This can be also done with SSI, CGI, ASP, or Front Page Includes. There's no reason why you SHOULDN'T be able to use any of these methods, and you will often find these are MORE useful for frames (Can change copyright info, etc.)

There we go. If you want a more in-depth discussion of frames, point your browser over to C|Net's Builder Buzz and do a search for "Frames"

If you're looking for software, there's lists at these two places.

The CGI Resources List lists a whole slew of message board CGI scripts in perl.. some are free.. some aren't. Check it out

TheSripts .com also has a very large index of free scripts.

Another one that you really might want to look at is Web Crossing It's not freeware, but it can handle a very large number of users and posts, and runs really well. See Builder Buzz to see it in use.

This is very similar to a fud article on c|net the other day. Nothing new. The biggest failure of AOL/Netscape has been their lack of PR for Mozilla. The less they say, the more the mainstream press is going to hurt them.

What is actually interesting was this article which goes on about Microsoft's new plans to support standards in future versions of IE. Would Microsoft be doing this if Mozilla didn't exist? I don't think so. If there wasn't a Mozilla, Microsoft would be pushing 'MSTML' or some other proprietary kludge.

Competition, standards, and Mozilla are GoodThings(tm) and need active support.