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To: Adam Nash who wrote (25575)	7/19/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

How Apple is Using Open Source Software (QuickTime Streaming Server) to Defeat Microsoft Without Appearing to Do So. By Robert X. Cringely >Darwin is the most audacious act of Steve Jobs' audacious career. No, it can't be used to make Mac clones, but it can be used to make very Mac-friendly servers on virtually any hardware platform. There has been some debate about whether Darwin can be recompiled to run on Intel or Alpha or some other processor family. It can be and will. Expect these servers to begin appearing in months, going head-to-head with NT, Unix, and Linux. While this may not sound especially audacious, it becomes more clearly so when we consider the rest of Apple's open-source offering -- the QuickTime Streaming Server and OpenPlay. Darwin is Apple's means of taking control of home entertainment in the 21st century. QuickTime is the only server not licensed on a per-stream basis, making it the cheapest streaming media solution other than Java, and QuickTime is faster than Java. To support real time streams, Darwin includes a real time kernel, something not available in Windows NT, Linux, or anywhere else. This is the highest-performance multimedia software the world has ever seen, and it is FREE. < pbs.org

To: Adam Nash who wrote (25575)	7/20/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

Re: WebObjects competition Other WebObjects competitors include: Vignette StoryServer FutureTense Content Server Omnimark Konstructor Allaire Cold Fusion Broadvision One-to-One As Adam says, WebObjects is in the high end. Its pricing is actually very low compared to some of these. Large scale Web sites use high end content management systems tied to relational databases such as Oracle. Products like FrontPage and Filemaker are for consumers and small businesses. Can't wait for the keynote tomorrow. I even had a dream about the consumer portable, so I guess you could say I'm looking forward to seeing its debut. rhet0ric