Friday, April 05, 2002

Dave W. is excited about Oddpost, a DHTML mail client from the coders who brought you halfbrain.com. Halfbrain.com was a DHTML spreadsheet application which I loved even though it frequently crashed my browser - I used it to collaborate on my wedding guest list with my Mom-in-law. DHTML can definitely be impressive, but it's so !#$%! hard to develop in and non-crossplatform that you might as well do it as an ActiveX control. Would Oddpost still be impressive if it was ActiveX? 1:05:36 PM      comment []  trackback []

Here's a quote from an eweek interview with Oracle president Tim Chou, discussing their ASP strategy: Chou: NetLedger [Inc., which developed the software] is a separate company, but we have rebranded it under the Oracle name. We're doing a lot of things to work together, but the Oracle sales force, those guys can't make enough money to buy Porches selling Small Business Suite. I would restate this as "Overpay for Oracle: you want our sales guys to buy Porsches, right?" This is a great ad for Postgres, IMO. 10:06:55 AM      comment []  trackback []