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Friday Aug 30, 2002

Netscape 7.0 shrivels...

Comments[0] by Dave in General

Mozilla is highly customizable and offers a number of user options, while Netscape forces users to accept many features and functions they probably don't want while removing some they probably do. [eWeek - Netscape 7.0 Shrivels Under Mozilla's Shadow]

"Unless [Netscape parent company] AOL makes a move soon, Netscape may find itself battling Opera for the last 1 percent to 2 percent of the market." ... "The browser war is in fact a massacre" [ WinFormant - New Netscape, Mozilla Browsers No Match for IE]
...while Mozilla swells

Bad news from Sun

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

"We've not seen any improvement in the current IT spending environment. In fact, some would say it might actually be worsening," Chief Financial Officer Steve McGowan said during a conference call with financial analysts. [CNET - IT outlook darkens Sun's revenue view]

How will BEA profit as a company?

Comments[0] by Dave in Java
Ovum software analyst Bola Rotibi said BEA's biggest problem remains its identity. The company calls itself an "application infrastructure" company - offering web services development environment, portal and integration software atop an application server. To many, though, it is still primarily known as an application server company. [The Register - Developer army not on the way for BEA]
Apparently, the hordes of VB programmers that BEA expected to run screaming from VB.NET are not showing up on BEA's doorstep. By painting itself as an applications company, BEA hopes to survive the commoditization of the app server business. Seems like you can't just sell development tools and infrastructure anymore, you've got to sell applications or better yet: complete customer solutions.

Roller needs

Comments[0] by Dave in Roller

Jeff Duska suggests the following for Roller: 

* a much better editor. The current edit is too simple.
* How do you change your password?
* A way to upload templates
We do need a better editor, even if it is only for IE. Maybe Russell Beattie will write a nice editor applet that we can use. Currently, there is no way for a user to change his/her password. And currently, the only ways to upload templates are by cut-and-pasting into Roller.

Jeff: If you use the Roller $macros.showEntryPermalink() in your day template, you'll get a permalink for each weblog entry.

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