On Tuesday, July 15, 1997 4:30 PM, Ron Seybold
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> Hello Friends:
>
> Jon Diercks noted last month that after several weeks of running
the
> Open
> Market Web Server demo without much trouble, "I'm getting this:
>
> >./logs/error:
> >
> >[Wed Jun 11 16:09:16 1997] httpd: Evaluation copy, the software
> >expires on
> >23-Ju
> >Evaluation copy, the software expires on 23-Jun-1997
> >httpd: Evaluation copy, the software expires on 23-Jun-1997
>
> Anybody got a clue why?"
>
> *Tongue planted firmly in cheek,* I'd guess that Open Market
> software
> learned in a secret transmission from OMI headquarters that CSY is
> backing
> away from Open Market -- because Open Market *really is* getting
out
> of the
> Web Server business. (They remain in the e-commerce business, just
> running
> anybody *else's* Web server.)
>
> Since this is a development important to the whole 3000 community,
> details
> are out on the NewsWire's FreeNews site:
>
> http://www.3k.com/other/seybold/OpenMarketDump.html
>
> The full contents of the July issue are also now available to paid
> subscribers at
>
> http://www.3k.com/other/seybold/subscribers/Alonline.html
<rant>
I kept the full text of Ron's message for those on SIGWeb-L who are
not on HP3000-L... sorry for the bandwidth waste - but for them,
it's not..
I just read this in the NewsWire not 5 minutes ago and I didn't get
past the third paragraph before I wanted someone's rearend on a
silver platter! As co-chair of SIGWeb - and have had some e-mail
dialog with Daren Connor - I'm a little more than miffed that I
didn't hear about this a little sooner and had to read it in the
press...
Well HP - here's the scoop - and I'm sure that it will come out loud
and clear in Chicago --- our HP-UX brethren get a web server free of
charge in HP-UX, correct? It's "Netscape Lite" - but a web server
nevertheless... Will one be bundled with the HP3000???
Or...there's Apache - freeware - and beats the pants (or skirt - pick
your gender) off OpenMarket and most other servers out there -
Including Netscape Commerce (and other Netscape) servers
Or... QWEBS ... practially freeware - CGI scripts are subroutines in
an XL and dosen't need POSIX, and be written in COBOL! (My website
is powered by QWEBS on port 80)
Yes, I'm stirring up the pot - and I hope to hell that SIGWeb members
who are HP3000 users read this and get really ticked off! If you
are, or even if you're not --- let's show HP that the 3000 is as
viable as the 9000 in the internet community and "we don't need no
steeeeenkin' OpenMarket" - put into MPE/iX FOS, the same thing that
is put into HP-UX...
Lastly - Daren Connor asked us our opinions - he got mine - did he
get yours? If not - then plan to be at SIGWeb, at HPWorld '97,
Tuesday from 6:00 to 7:50... and if you can't be there - then e-mail
or fax or mail me your issues, or post them on [log in to unmask]
so we can get them included. My HP3000 handles SMTP mail, Web
traffic, FTP and DNS --- and it does so VERY well...
</rant>
Joe ("phew, that feels better") Geiser
"Never mess with a ticked off German"
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