Hi Pekr and REBOLs,
Bo's new baby girl, our new little REBOL, has been named Tatiana, Tatiana
Lechnowsky. Wouldn't that be a beautiful name for the heroine in a Tolstoy
novel.
Brenda
At 10:30 PM 4/19/00 +0200, you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Dear REBOL friends,
> >
> > I guess I goofed! We've been working so hard on making new products
> and formulating business strategies around here, that we've not paid any
> attention to our web page. Last week, someone commented that we looked
> "dead" because our web page had not been updated in over a month. I
> agreed... and decided to do something about it.
> >
> > Yesterday, I thought I should let it be known that we are making great
> progress here at REBOL HQ. Over the last month we've come a long way in
> our product development efforts and in our business development
> plans. In fact, over the last month I hired a great guy to help me run
> the company (which we'll be announcing soon) and there have been several
> other important strategic developments (not all of which we can talk
> about for a while).
> >
>
>"Who's that girl?" (c) Madonna
>"Who's that guy?" (c) -pekr- :-))) (Do we know him from Amiga past? RJ
>Mical, David Junod? :-)
>
> > Over the last week I've been spending my time in the rebcave writing
> REBOL/author (man, you should see what a 35KB /View program can really
> do... very nice.) I came out of the cave long enough to make that update
> to the web site, and today things have gone crazy, not just on this list,
> but everywhere!
> >
>
>Come on Carl, release it :-) btw: how is new event/timer thingy for /View
>doing? :-)
>
> > So, what about REBOL/Command? That's what you want to know, right?
> >
> > There is both good news and bad news. The good news is that, yes, we do
> have /Command out to a small group of beta testers and the feedback has
> been positive. The bad news is that it runs on only a few platforms at
> this time, and we want to put more features into it before we release it
> to a larger group.
> >
> > Currently, the beta release of /Command has ODBC, external library
> (DLL) calls, and shell command access. But, I thought you wouldn't want
> to hear from us until we also had encryption, asynchronous messaging,
> network service management, full XML support, modules (namespaces),
> on-demand component loading, tasking/threading, etc. So, we didn't make
> a big deal out of the beta 1 release.
> >
>
>Just one question which can be imho answered - will any of above features
>make it to /Core too?
>
> > Of course, I forgot about that yesterday and blurted out that it was in
> beta, and now you want to try it. I can't blame you. I would too!
> >
> > So, what now?
> >
> > We don't want to do an open beta test of /Command because it will
> become too crazy, and we'll be overloaded. Bo and his wife just had a
> baby girl (Congratulations Bo!), so he's not around,
>
>ha, I talked to him just few days ago, Congratulation from Czech Republic,
>Bohdan. What's here name? :-)
>
> > and Scott is doing three jobs at the same time, just as Jim, Sterling,
> Jeff, and Holger are trying to write several new products at the same
> time, and Erin just completed a couple new chapters for the manual, and
> Danny is getting you four new REBOL books from some big book publishers,
> and the executive crew has put together a new business plan, and we're
> moving into a larger building next week, but the network connection isn't
> ready, and whew, that's a lot going on. <grin> But this is fun. I love
> this pace. It feels like the old Amiga startup days. We're rocking and
> rolling.
> >
> > So, here's my suggestion. I have to talk to Dan about it, but, if you
> really want to test /Command beta 1, and you can:
> >
> > 1. test it with an actual database (using ODBC),
> > 2. test the external library and shell calls,
> > 3. not just report bugs, but suggest about how they might be fixed,
> > 4. keep it strictly confidential and to yourself,
> > 5. and, you do not care that it only runs on a few platforms right now,
> >
> > then we could send you a copy... after Dan approves it. But remember,
> /Command will be released as a commercial product and, because of the
> features it supports, it is not intended to be platform independent (like
> /Core is).
> >
> > If you agree to this, then send [EMAIL PROTECTED] an email telling him what
> kind of project you are doing, and he will get back to you.
> >
> > Do not worry if Dan says no. As we add more features to /Command,
> we'll need more beta testers. Right now we don't have the staff to keep
> up with the demand and feedback. (Although, we do plan on expanding our
> staff in a couple months, so if you're looking for a new job...)
> >
> > So that's the plan.
> >
> > Keep on rebolling,
> >
>
>Thanks for your email, very encouraging one ...
>
>-pekr-
>
> >
> > Carl Sassenrath
> > REBOL/Founder
Brenda Christian
Director of Human Resources
REBOL Technologies
707-467-8006 - direct line HR
http://www.rebol.com
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