Not surprisingly, with AOL coming out with blogging software and Google buying Pyra Labs, Microsoft is checking it out. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal blogs: “My colleague, Michael Bazeley, points me to Wallop, a project of the Online Lab at Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Group…. ” in Microsoft Experiments with Blogging and Social Software.
Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch noted the site here
Rick has two RSS feeds on the front page of http://www.west-wind.com. Neither pass the Feed Validator check at http://www.feedvalidator.org because the feeds do not include email addresses. Isn’t this just asking for a spam harvester to collect your address, though?
Check out Rick’s two feeds:
What’s New at http://www.west-wind.com/Westwindnews.rss.xml
Articles at http://www.west-wind.com/Westwindarticles.rss.xml
Permalinks Fixed. There ya go Ted! [FoxBlog]
Red Hat’s Fedora released – the upgrade path for the rest of us?. “What if we have a cuckoo in the nest here?” [The Register]
Check out the coverage of the Frankfurt, Germany confence by Hans-Otto Lochman and Armin Neudert posted here.
DevCon Announced. From FoxBlog via [Andrew MacNeill – AKSEL Solutions]
Thanks to Craig for monitoring for this.
Advisor has announced the next VFP DevCon to be held Sept. 29 – Oct 2 in Las Vegas. No announcement of the hotel. I think Vegas is a great location. I can drive there in about six hours. The hotels are cheap, food is cheap, rooms are cheap, airfare for others is cheap. Kudos to Advisor!
On a related note, Ken Levy has publically hinted that DevCon will be the official launch for VFP9. Let’s look at the calendar and see how accurate this could be for release dates. VFP 8 was released in February. Typically, VFP has been on an 18 month schedule. That would put release at sometime around July. Ken also recently stated on the Universal Thread that the Fox team added three months to the schedule to allow for additional testing and QA. Now we’re looking at October. The dates look about right to me for release about the same time as DevCon.”
I would have posted Craig’s original posting, but the links to his blog are still broken in his RSS feed, and I couldn’t figure out a way to permalink to his posting.
Looks like if you’re planning to go to the FoxPro DevCon, you could go a few days earlier and see what Novell is up to at Advisor’s Novell DevCon, too.
Chris Stone, Vice Chairman of Novell, is interviewed here on the SuSE acquisition by Novell.
Swapped around a hub and a switch in the home office today, and one of the W2K servers refused to connect to the network. Flickering lights on the switch, solid link lights on the NIC, both LinkSys. Cold shutdown and examination revealed the card was older than the version of the driver; reverting to the older, proper driver brought on the Full Microsoft Experience: machine locked up, lost it’s entire driver database, refused to load, refused to recognize hardware, melted down. Okay, not the full eXPerience: I didn’t blue screen. But near enough. A few hours later and the original, incorrect driver is in place, and I’m backing up the few items on the machine not duplicated elsewhere prior to meling it down for slag. Or Mandrake, SuSE, something. Grrrr. I hate hardware.
CNET News.com – Front Door leads off with a story that Novell to acquire SuSE Linux. “The longtime Microsoft foe signs an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM will take a $50 million investment in Novell.” I’m sceptical that this will be a good move for any of them. Novell does not have a history of successes. SuSE was popular in Europe, with a reputation as a top distribution, but also a positive attribute of *NOT* being an “American distribution,” despite the fact that contributions come from all over the world.
Yesterday, RedHat sent out notices that ‘free’ RedHat would be no more, with a renamed (and possibly incompatible?) Fedora taking over the “enthusiast” market and a “Red Hat Enterprise Linux” raising the price point for a supported, business-grade Linux.
To me, it sounds like the #1 and #2 leading distributions have shot themselves in their respective feet. This is the kind of behavior that a marketing company like Microsoft can take advantage of. Let’s hope in the coming weeks that spin and damage control minimize the FUD sure to develop from these moves.
“In a Nutshell: All About Longhorn” John Carroll submits a special report summarizing Microsoft’s recent Professional Developer Conference, which seemed to focus on “Longhorn,” Microsoft’s next major client operating system, supposedly due in 2003. It sounds like a completely rewritten OS, with legacy Win32 APIs as well as all new .NET interfaces. On the bright side, Microsoft is finally replacing all the groady old interfaces that drove us crazy. On the downside, what will the compatibility issue be like? Shades of the Win32s mess revisited. Let’s hope they’ve learned from that. Linked from OSNews