Tuesday, March 19, 2002

Finally Real P2P With Brains [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 11:46:36 PM

StarOffice goes commercial, and stays open-source SUN MICROSYSTEMS'S STAROFFICE 6.0 will come with enhanced features and added support, but at a price, as Sun aims to attract a wider audience, such as businesses, towards the office-productivity software suite. A less sophisticated version of the product will still be available for free download from OpenOffice.org, the open-source community sponsored by Sun, the company announced Tuesday. "We are positioning this product as a direct competitor to Microsoft's Office," said Mike Rogers, vice president and general manager of desktop and office productivity at Palo Alto, California-based Sun.  [IDG InfoWorld] 11:43:17 PM

asp2php 0.76.3 asp2php converts WWW Active Server Pages (ASP) files that run on the Microsoft IIS Web Server into PHP pages to run on Apache. [freshmeat.net] 11:35:55 PM

André Radke: "Version 1.0a10 of my PostgreSQL extension for Frontier and Radio is ready for download."  [Scripting News] 11:34:53 PM

Generating Web Content with Cocoon. Cocoon provides for developers a way to generate content dynamically using XML data. XML expert Michael Classen takes a look at the version 2 release, which, among other things, improves scalability by using SAX instead of the DOM. 0319 [WebReference News] 11:29:23 PM