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  1. Re:Will Google Buy Webb Interactive? by Erbo · · Score: 1 · on Google, Skype and the Future of IM
    Last I saw, Webb Interactive was little more than a holding company for 43% of Jabber, Inc. They used to have other technologies under their own banner, but those have all fallen by the wayside at this point. Google would have to buy out France Telecom and Intel if they wanted to get all of Jabber Inc. under their roof, but I don't see why they'd buy Webb rather than just buy out Webb's stake in Jabber, unless Webb won't sell any other way.

    That's assuming it's even necessary to buy out Jabber. Likely, they'd just buy Jabber's server product, if the open-source server wasn't powerful enough to handle Google Talk's load. So they'd be Jabber Inc. customers, but not necessarily owners.

    By the way, open-source Jabber development does not fall under Jabber Inc., but under the Jabber Software Foundation. Jabber Inc. sponsors the foundation and employs many of the core developers, though.

    (disclaimer: somewhere in the back of my closet, I have old boxes of business cards from both Webb Interactive and Jabber, with my name on them)

  2. Re:Perfect pitfall game? by Alatar · · Score: 4 · on First Ever Pitfall Perfection?

    Here is a Pitfall map for the Intellivision version. As you can see it's quite finite. Here's a far more cryptic ASCII drawing of the Pitfall map for the Atari 2600 version.

  3. In support of this nomination... by Erbo · · Score: 2 · on Category: Most Improved Open Source Project
    ...may I present, for your enlightenment, a link to founder Jeremie Miller's year-end status report for 1999, describing the current state of Jabber development.

    Disclaimer: I work for Webb Interactive (the company that now employs Jeremie), on Jabber-related software.

    Eric
    --
    "Free your code...and the rest will follow."

  4. CommunityWare by Erbo · · Score: 2 · on Are BBS-Like Communities Dead?
    Forgive me the odd bit of self-promotion...

    For the past couple of years (at least), I've been working on a Web-based online community system that is very BBS-like in some respects. It's called CommunityWare (or, in its latest incarnation, CommunityWare/XML) and it features conferencing, online presence, instant messaging, chat, Web hosting, email, and so forth. It allows people to create their own "communities" online, so I guess it'd be more of a "meta-BBS" system than a BBS proper. You can get into it here.

    One of the best-known communities hosted on CommunityWare is the Electric Minds community, which is full of interesting and fun people. You can get to it through its own URL, which is referenced in my .sig.

    Eric
    --
    "Free your code...and the rest will follow."

  5. OSS Supporter: Webb Interactive Services by Erbo · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Does your Employer have an OSS Policy?
    The company I work for, Webb Interactive Services (NASDAQ:WEBB), is getting heavily into Open Source. We're now officially sponsoring the Jabber Open Source, XML-based instant messaging system. We hired Jeremie Miller, the founder and lead designer of Jabber, to keep designing Jabber, and we're committing development resources to the project as well. (I'm working on it, in fact.)

    Our press release is here, and we have an additional page of background information here.

    Eric
    --
    "Free your code...and the rest will follow."

  6. OSS Supporter: Webb Interactive Services by Erbo · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Does your Employer have an OSS Policy?
    The company I work for, Webb Interactive Services (NASDAQ:WEBB), is getting heavily into Open Source. We're now officially sponsoring the Jabber Open Source, XML-based instant messaging system. We hired Jeremie Miller, the founder and lead designer of Jabber, to keep designing Jabber, and we're committing development resources to the project as well. (I'm working on it, in fact.)

    Our press release is here, and we have an additional page of background information here.

    Eric
    --
    "Free your code...and the rest will follow."

  7. Qmail is a good way to go by Erbo · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Building a Large Email Service
    When I recently had to design a Web-based email service as part of my company's "portal" site, I chose Qmail as the "back end" of the service. I set it up to use a virtual password service (I took one called "vchkpw" and modified it) and set up hashed mail directories to keep the directory structure balanced. I also created a miniature HTTP/CGI server in Perl (it didn't have to be fancy, and it uses the UCSPI-TCP "tcpserver" program for its network front end) and employed some Perl scripts and C programs to allow mailboxes to be created and deleted via an HTTP operation. On our public site, this runs under Solaris; for development purposes, I used Linux.

    On the Web server side, sadly, it's Windows NT and IIS/ASP, with some ASP components including a custom-written client-side mail store. We use the commercial AspHTTP component from ServerObjects to send requests to the mini CGI server on the Unix box when we need to create accounts. We also use AspMail and AspPOP3 to handle sending and receiving messages. (The mail server is firewalled, so you can't connect to it from the outside with POP3.)

    Qmail is definitely industrial strength and free, two qualities that we appreciated. It's also easy to configure and fairly easy to customize. Recommended. Oh, and you can find the end result at www.webb.net.

    Eric
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