"Infrastructure, Software Lead Way at Fall Internet World" or Where the hell is SoftQuad?
"...If nominations for Best of Show awards at this week's Fall Internet World 98 in New York City are an accurate index, the Internet industry is undergoing a massive shift-out from late adolescence into early robust maturity.
Products and services in many segments of the industry are dramatically faster, more versatile, cheaper, and easier to use than before--in many cases, vigorously pushing back technological frontiers that have barely taken shape.
Developers of hardware and software seem to have worked through fundamental problems of Net technology--much as they did with basic desktop productivity a decade ago-and now hawk products that offer innovative, often multidimensional solutions to broad sectors of a mammoth market...Building substantial, technically advanced Web sites is getting easier and easier. While it won't replace the large, hand-picked teams that turn out big, glitzy corporate sites, NetObjects Inc.'s Authoring Server Suite eases and organizes collaborative site creation. The TeamFusion component automates page generation, the server proper keeps documents and versions under control, and the Java-based Content Contributor client lets departmental workers post and update intranet content.
Microsoft's FrontPage 2000, which will be shown publicly for the first time at Fall IW, also lowers the bar on Web production and management [see story, left]..."
source: © Oct 8 1998 Internet World Lead Feature Article
iw.com
NetObjects, FrontPage 2000 vaporware beta...clearly own the brand equity in web authoring/development...
...HoTMetaL Pro 5.0 [and HMAPPS e-commerce...] is released Oct 1 and miss Fall Internet World Oct 5-9!?...yeah right...this baby has simply been sold?...HoTMetaLs [SoftQuad Incs] fame will not be from its success but as a Harvard Case Study as simply and unequivocally one of the internet's biggest tragedies/disasters...and agree...Gurney, and the Rabins are proximate cause for not only failing to [ever] establish, create, maintain [let alone maximize] SoftQuad Inc shareholder value(.)...but as proximate cause for 95+% shareholder value destruction... |
