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

["Pascal V. Calarco" <pvcalarc@vcu.edu>]

That's great news about the status of the SIR code to be posted to
the oss4lib site.  I would like to re-purpose it for use as an information
portal for the American Society for Information Science website.
I think the nicest feature built into the code was the statistics collection.

  - pascal

Daniel Chudnov wrote:

> 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 the current docs are a bit out of date.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
>
> ===============================================================================
> 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
>
> ===============================================================================