Saturday, August 03, 2002

Openacs 4.x on MSSQL I completed converting the second unit test file in acs-kernel. I'm going to next finish the remaining unit test files, and start working out how to access the API from a web browser. I'm leaning towards Java right now, because it's web server independent and easily converted to .NET. Although I'm not a huge Java fan, There are not one but two existing ports of ACS to Java (the original 4.x from ACS and the new 5.0 CCM stuff). This prior art should help get me to something useful more quickly. No os/web server/etc dependencies Easily converted to .Net using JUMP or J++. It's probably time I did some real work in Java :-) 7:39:47 PM      comment []  trackback []

Honing vendor lock-in to a fine art Good write-up on how MS intends to sell it's enterprise stack: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ne/xml/02/08/05/020805nenonnet.xml It's amazing how they nullify the price-benefit of using Linux for samba file services, by requiring a client license for each and every *device*. I feel like I keep waiting for the big backlash, that the price-benefit equation has crashed w.r.t. the vendor lock-in aspect of using MS, but MS's revenue just keeps topping the charts. 2:45:37 PM      comment []  trackback []