Friday, July 25, 1997

Want a sneak peak at how UCMDs will work on Windows? DLLs.

An important milestone for the Win32 version of Frontier.

Microsoft's response to ABM -- NOISE. Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Everyone else.

DaveNet: "Steve Wozniak and the Garage". (Also discusses the Netscape-Marimba deal.)

Mike McCue, a lead developer at Netscape: "For the record, we are working very hard to make the Marimba protocol an open standard asap. It will usually be the case with fringe features that they are initially non-standard. Then over time the open standards circle will widen to encompasses these features."

Henry Norr seeks peace with MacZealots and Cliff Colby has mixed feelings about Mac OS 8 and (for the most part) Don Crabb takes off the gloves and stops apologizing for past Apple management, all in this week's MacWEEK.

DaveNet: "A Helpful Tip" for reporters, flamed by zealots.

"Mail Starting 7/25/97".

Bloomberg report on the Marimba-Netscape deal.

Upside interview with Larry Ellison.

News.com: Apple board member resigns as CalPERS takes a closer look at Apple.

An interesting idea which we are already exploring. NewsTracker and other "just in time" search engines could use our siteChanges file to keep up with changes on Scripting News on a daily basis. We could rebuild the file every hour or every ten minutes. Anyone want to work with us on this? Excite? Yahoo? Netscape? Microsoft? dave@scripting.com.