World: r3wp

maybe Reichart should think about QTask interface for R3 :-)

As W3C have discovered, a "standard" is what the majority of people 
are using, not necessarily what a committee says it is. :-)

my standard and your standard.

I always like the term  "A NEW STANDARD"    :-)

http://home.comcast.net/~justin_brady/walkietalkie/

Cute, has anyone made a peerless thing like Skype?  It would assume 
that each client would need to relay to at least one additional client.

We use TeamSpeak still,  it works about 85% of the time, and with 
about 85% of people.  For example Europe gets messed up sometimes.

I'm still interested in non-proprietary stuff.  I'd like to try out 
walkietalkie sometime. Linux source is available. Could probably 
make something like that in rebol, with a support DLL.  But not today....

See the newest development in hash functions: http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/SNMAC/SNMAC_EN.pdf

(the first hash proposal offering a safety proof)

What we were supposed to get back in 2003? http://youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y
- what a multiimedia capabilities :-)

Is sun going to be the technology leader instead of IBM? - http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp

I welcome what both companies do with supporting their open designs 
.... after all those years Sun is even opening JAVA ....

wow, thats a big step

Is sun going to be the technology leader instead of IBM? -

what does IBM meant to you nowadays?


To me, they are just a Professional Services Organization.. , granted, 
they have R&D etc.


But, they have been slowly getting rid of various assets over the 
years.

'The "Penelope" project's intention is to join the Eudora® user experience 
with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora 
that is open source and based on mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* 
our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement 
it.'

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope#Current_Status

Yeksoon - are you kidding, right? Dunno precise SUN portfolio, but 
except their CPU/Server technology plus corresponding sw, JAVA, what 
are they doing technology wise?

IBM, in that regard, even if they sold their PC business, has much 
more broader aproach ...

... not to mention their sw division ...

FireBird 2.0 goes gold - http://www.firebirdsql.org/

Wish RT would support Firebird natively ... :)

Can't use it on Linux ..., and I see it now has support for incremental 
online backup too.

good experience with FB? Do you use ODBC driver?

Yes ... so stuck on windows

why no Linux? I also read it can be used in non-server = local file 
version?

Firebird is on Linux, Solaris etc.  But how to connect?  No Rebol 
driver.

there isn't odbc driver for linux?

Not that I know of .. but odbc is not supported on Linux anyway.

http://www.reboltalk.com/forum/index.php/topic,304.0.html
See Carl's answer.

eh, did not know it ... I thought that Command SDK does support it 
cross platformly ...

Not that I know of.

is there description of FB protocol anywhere? I mean - to do eventually 
tcp driver?

FB is natively tcp .. but there is no description that I know of.

uhm, that is a pity - how then other langs do their support?

I guess they must have read the firebird C sources and figured it 
out.

why have you decided to use FB for your EMR system? Wouldn't you 
be better serverd by mySQL e.g.?

Good question!

Licensing for one.

mySQL does limit you license-wise? IIRC it is completly open. Just 
their embedded library is licensed differently IIRC ... but well, 
I am not good at all that licensing stuff myself .... also PostGress 
is reported being really profi and we have good driver for it too 
....

I didn''t have enough experience to get Postgresql driver working.

http://www.ibpp.org/open source C++ client interface to Interbase/Firebird

hmm, just got myself to http://rubyforge.org- there is really many 
community projects ongoin with Ruby ..., just go to project tree 
...

IBM, in that regard, even if they sold their PC business, has much 
more broader aproach ...

Pekr, I will try to answer from a marketing perspective.


Your statement suggest that a company with a broad based approach 
(diversified) in various markets is better than one with a narrow, 
focused approach.


My own study of companies suggest otherwise. I believe General Electric 
is one such case study. Throughout the 80s, they have acquired many 
companies across many industries, today... they have sell off a lot 
of the units that they have acquired.


Same goes with IBM. IBM is divesting their assets in a suitable time 
frame. They still have a 'broader approach' because of legacy baggages 
that they have not discard.


In fact, most companies that leads in their market segment do so 
because they are focused (during that time). SUN was focused on UNIX 
; Apollo did not.

MS was focused on PC; IBM says from mainframe to midrange to workstation 
to home PC....ironically MS is losing focus (do you think MS will 
win in the various new markets?)


It is not whether IBM has a broader approach that matters; it is 
about how fast IBM can reduce the excess baggages that it has acquired 
throughout the years.


SUN, in my opinion, is more focused than IBM now. At least , to me.... 
they own the 'datacenter' mindshare.


Corporates strategies facinates me. 2 of the most (fatal) management 
theories :

- diversifcation; why diversify when your core market is fragmenting...shouldn't 
you focus on one fragments instead? 

- convergence; eg. AOL-Netscape-TimeWarner...why do companies believe 
that different categories of business are coming together and not 
dividing further?


I, too make the mistakes above...and needs to clean up my 'business 
wardrobe'.

diverstity helps you not to sink when you only market (even if you 
are its leader) wanes or vanishes.

SGI was the undisputed leader in gfx and for some time had  very 
compelling and diffrentiated servers.

although VERY bad decisions where made (like selling of their gfx 
R&D and calling that nvidia) had they not diversified somewhat, they 
would be a memory for a while.

Direction of change should not be mix with diversification. (my opinion).

if sillicon gfx had just kept their R&D and *licenced* their technology 
or simply made nvidia themselves as a spin off, they would still 
be "in the game"  right now, just about the only thing worth buying 
is their linux server stuff with very high-end add ons and HW tech.

they did change direction in how they structured the company, trying 
to focus more on what was becomming a more important part of their 
business (servers)

Sun chooses GPL http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html?tag=nl.e589