[oss4lib] php, & wow: Colloquium: Eric Raymond (fwd)

[Daniel Chudnov <daniel.chudnov@yale.edu>]

We're big php fans here at the Yale Medical Library.  As Pascal said, we
depend on the php+mySQL combo (running through apache) for our most
important homegrown online resources.  These include Medmenu
(info.med.yale.edu/medmenu), our gathering point for all e-resources and
Selected Internet Resources (SIR -- info.med.yale.edu/library/sir), a
librarian-selected collection of net links by category.

Additionally, there's a strong trend that everything new we do should use
this same combo - php+mySQL, for two reasons:  (1) they're good, fairly
easy to learn and robust; (2) our tech support unit loves them too.  Not a
bad combination.  Thus all the functionality we're building into oss4lib
is all php.  And I'm moving some legacy MSAccess/ASP resources to
php+mySQL as well... 

btw, we are intending to get the Medmenu and SIR code up and online at
oss4lib... the current docs are a bit out of date. 


On another note, look who's coming to town...  maybe he'll let me buy him
a beer.  Or several.


  -Dan



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COLLOQUIUM

		     Why Microsoft is Doomed: Linux
		      and the Rise of Open Source
		 
			     Eric Raymond
		 
			       Thursday
			   February 25, 1999
			       4:30 PM
		 
			     Room LC 101

The talk, generally, will be a comparison of closed source versus open source
software development, with Windows NT/98 and Linux as examples of respective
products.  Also, it will most likely explore the comparison in light of recent
events such as Microsoft's leaked "Halloween Documents" and the company's
policy on open standards such as Java.

Mr. Raymond is the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and other
analyses of the Open Source software phenomenon; see
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings .

The event is sponsored by linux-list and the Yale Computer Science Department.

For more information, see http://www.yale.edu/linux-list

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