Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 12:53:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Archive <archive@cps.cmich.edu> To: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, jnoetzel@intermind.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape Commerce Servers Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.960728125120.9064A-100000@cps200.cps.cmich.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607152054.NAA02840@starshine>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: > > > > On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know about FreeBSD ports of the Commerce server and the News > > > > server? I know we've got Navigator ports, but I'd like to get a couple > > > > server ports as well if we have them available. > > > The BSDI commerce server runs (but didn't Netscape just drop BSDI > > > so the can concentrate on the NT platform where Microsoft has > > > already won?). > > Well actually Netscape is dropping support for all non-threaded OS's for their > > servers.. > > > Matthew S. Bailey > > I was at a party hanging out with three or four of Netscape's > developement team over the weekend -- I didn't get the impression > that they were doing either of these things. > > Granted we chatted more about the client side and business > model issues -- mostly about Java and JavaScript which is what this > particularly crew are working on most. I suggested that > JavaScript (a.k.a. LiveScript take on one feature -- > that the <script> tag take attributes like: > > <script src="/path/to/script/file" ver="$required_script_parser_here"> > <p> > Things displayed to non script capable browsers go here.</p>. > </script> > > (to get rid of that atrocious code-embedded-in-comments hack). > > (He said they'll look at it for version 4.x). > > So, Matthew, what's the source of your info? I'd like to see > more about this. > Sorry for such a late response work has been getting to me here :) I got that information for the mirror mailing list (we were one of netscape mirror sites) and from netscape sales about 3 months ago, however I called them friday and asked the same question as before and what I gather is they have done a total rewrite and support for non-threaded OS's is forthcomming but it very slow. Matthew S. Bailey mbailey@cps.cmich.edu
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