On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:48:39AM -0800, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> The read I have on it is that AOL will "distribute" the browser and Sun will
> handle the server software. The question I'm not clear on is "who's going to
> be developing the browser?" That's where my knees get a little shakey. Will
> it be AOL (ack), Sun, Open Source?
Netscape's web servers are inferior to Apache already; I don't think
Sun will be able to remedy that by catching up *unless* they go open-source
with them and leverage the collective brainpower of the 'net. (In which
case probably what would happen is that some Apache/Netscape hybrid will
evolve that beat the pants off both.) The Mozilla browser project is
already well underway, as are other browser projects; I think it's far
enough along that even it can stand on its on.
So I don't really care what AOL, Netscape or Sun do: it's out of their
hands, anyway, because the OSS movement is far bigger than they are
and has much larger resources to throw at the problems. I think this
whole thing is driven by the hype over "portals", by Netscape's
shakiness as a company, and by AOL's amazing ability to continue to
exist despite a seemingly endless list of technical problems.
Rich Kulawiec / [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 610-459-0356
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