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Cobalt buys Chilli!soft

Posted by Hemos on from the buyout-for-power dept.

A number of folks have written to us regarding the purchase of Chilli!soft by Colbalt Networks. It seems that Cobalt is interested in Chilli's implementation of ASP for Linux for their own server appliances.

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  1. Almost there by JohnZed · · Score: 4

    I think this is an extremely smart move, especially considering the large number of current ASP users/developers. It's just not realistic to ask a small company to retrain all of its developers from VB/InterDev/ASP to PHP. The costs of doing that would far outweigh the return on investment for switching to Linux in most cases.
    If I were Cobalt, I'd start bundling two more things: a high performance JSP/Servlet implementation and management interface (Resin + a web front end), and a serious database. MySQL is nice if you're writing code from the ground up that can work around its lack of SQL standards compliance and other features, but it can be difficult to port code from other DBs to it. Once InterBase 6.0 is out for real, Cobalt will have a full presentation(ASP/JSP) and backend (InterBase) solution with near-zero administration (IB was made for exactly this sort of use).
    I think that sounds like a pretty damn cool solution-in-a-box, much more sophisticated and maintainable than the current server appliances.
    --JRZ

  2. The Correct Link by BigRedZX · · Score: 4

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