Open Frontier
Dave Winer: At some point in the next few months, there
will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel.
Does anybody remember Domino Go WebServer? Anybody? Bueller?
The thought process that Dave describes exactly mirrors the thought process that IBM went through a few years back when it decided to participate in Apache.
Oh, the pain.
The funny (sad) thing with DGW is that it was actually quite a decent webserver by the time SWG decided to kill it. I mean, it took nearly four years for it to get good enough to be used on www.ibm.com (including the disaster that was Deep Blue II) but by the time the '98 Olympics swung around it was decent enough to be used for the Nagano site. If all you were doing was serving content, and had no applications, it was fine.
Posted by ed costello atThat's pretty faint praise. If all you're doing is serving static content, you can use publicfile. Of course that's not open source either. :)
Posted by Mark at
Open CMS wave? Or just me and nihilism.
More often than not, I have troubles understanding Sam's short, insinuating, future-telling posts about OSS ecologies. My take is that...... [more]Trackback from Outer Web Thought Log at
The designers of DGW thought that CGI were silly little things and that it was much more sensible to expect websites to write their applications as threadsafe, re-entrant plugins. They neglected to mention that the webserver had to stop all threads in order to fork and invoke a CGI. They also didn't realize that a threaded webserver couldn't run well with a not-necessarily threadsafe filesystem like AFS.
DGW lasted just long enough to cause IBM's websites to stagnate since we were forced to use NCSA 1.3 into 1998 (couldn't use DGW since it didn't work, couldn't upgrade to Apache because that would imply IBM couldn't write a web server, which it couldn't).
Posted by ed costello at
Do I remember Domino Go Server? I remember when it was just the Go server on OS/2, before the Lotus Notes involvement. My first adventures in CGI-scripting were Perl and the Go server on OS/2. ahhh!
Hmmm... I think I'm missing the connection between Domino and Apache (Foundation). Is Domino the failure because of remaining closed source and the jakarta projects the massive win because of the opening of the source?
Posted by Isofarro at