For those of you coming to IPROF, OnOn Hong from the Internet Group, and
SIGWeb's Liason will have all of the details on this.

Many of the answers have already surfaced here.

For those who cannot make it, we'll have some items posted here, and on the
SIGWeb-L Listserv.

Best Regards,
Joe Geiser
Co-Chair, SIGWeb.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Seybold [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 4:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: NewsWire BULLETIN: HP adopts Apache for 3000
>
>
> Hello Friends:
>
> Paul Ackley of United McGill Corp.asked, "What happened to
> the Netscape Web
> Server that was supposed to be with MPE/iX 6.0?"
>
> Netscape's FastTrack will not ship for HP 3000s, despite being at a
> demo-ready version last summer. HP will be leveraging some of its
> engineering work from that port to deliver LDAP services. HP
> appears to be
> ready to back away from that difficult FastTrack port to
> adopt software
> that comes from Open Source methods -- where nobody owns the
> code, and so
> it can't be discontinued (like what happened to HP's last
> 3000 Web Server,
> from Open Market).
>
> As an Open Market customer -- our NewsWire Web site is served
> off the OM
> software on a 3000 for the moment, until our technology partner 3k
> Associates completes the port to Apache/iX -- we think this is a good
> policy. With all the turmoil in the Internet market, no
> single supplier of
> a Web solution could be counted upon to maintain code through an
> acquisition. Netscape, being acquired by AOL, certainly
> wasn't immune to
> being taken over. Open Source products, like Samba, eliminate this
> potential for disruption.
>
>
> Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
> The 3000 NewsWire
> Independent Information to Maximize Your HP 3000
> [log in to unmask] http://www.3000newswire.com/newswire
> 512.331.0075
>