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Updated: 9/1/2002; 7:00:54 PM.
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Thursday, March 07, 2002 |
We are starting the process for moving Axis into beta status.
5:54:45 PM 
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I love it when our "competitors" demo our products. I saw this once before at the MS PDC... after asking the presenter a few questions, I identified myself. I could see his pupils widen and the blood drain from his face when he realized who I was. He asked me if I had any issues with what they were doing and I quickly assured him that I was thrilled. After all, the point of this whole exercise is interop.
5:52:50 PM
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More coverage of the last week's interop event: Mission Possible. While vendors will aggressively compete to build the best platforms and tools for deploying Web services -- for instance, Microsoft's .Net vs. J2EE-platforms such as BEA's WebLogic or IBM's WebSphere -- developers are working hard to ensure that basic protocol interoperability becomes a reality. It looks like InfoWorld groks the whole "cooperate on standards; compete on implementations" theme.
7:04:26 AM
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Apache XML-RPC 1.1 released. Apache XML-RPC was previously known as Helma XML-RPC. The 1.1 release is primarily a performance enhancement and bug fix.
6:16:26 AM
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Peter Drayton posted a picture of his MSCOREE licence plate. Little known fact: while numerous references to Microsoft were removed in the standardization process (e.g., MSIL => CIL), the names MSCORLIB and to a lesser extent MSCOREE survived. If you feel like downloading ECMA-335, look at section 24.3.1 on page 161.
5:27:26 AM
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Jon Udell: I say again: it wasn't primarily about the software. It was about the willingness of people to work transparently, for their own benefit and for the common good. And about the ability of people to think in terms of messages addressed to spaces, rather than messages addressed to people. This is a deep anthropological issue. As a species, we are now being invited to communicate in ways more abstract and indirect than tens of thousands of years of cultural history have conditioned us for. I know we can adapt, and will. The $64,000 question for me is: how soon?
It will be a rocky road for many. I've seen excellent developers who thrive in a corporate environment stall and stagnate in an open source environment. I've seen others positively blossom there. I guess some of us are wired differently.
5:05:28 AM
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