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The doors to creative thinking and doing are in the narrow places between large structures. The empires of the world and the mind dominate the landscape. Vast historic structures obscure the view of the horizon and our real location. Down narrow lanes and in far fields we sometimes can gain images that glimmer with reflections of a pale light, far off.
Where theses narrow lanes and far field meet are the focal points of new creations.
There is a container, connected to nodes, connected to networks, creating a info-sphere of billions living reproducing pathways and elements. The bio-sphere began and is still largely made up of micro-organisms that share genetic information through networks of co-option, cooperation and communication that become organic wholes from simpler to complex. Cells take in parts from elsewhere and collect abilities of different genes. The biological and infomation packets are coming together on a global scale.
One element basic to global networks are standards. The critical standard is digital information which can be understood and act upon by all the other members of the community. The information utility will operate on a common operational language - such as HTTP, FTP, Java, that will co=option functions from different places, in words, pictures, sounds and video. The Microsoft issue is their desire to make MS-OS/ active X the universal language for all future global networks, software, operations, communications and services. Netscape’s inter-operation open arch-culture has a somewhat different vision of inter and intra operability. The global scope of mega networks makes Microsoft’s vision unlikely but not impossible. Their moves into communications, cable, satellites, broadcasting and services should be taken as very important but not as a given. Without outside intervention or meaningful competition they could set NT/active X type systems as the standard for most if not all inter-net communications. The NOISE group of Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Corel and Everyone else had the model right years ago. With bandwidth ( such as private networks - intranets, extra-nets, and other high speed networks ) the network becomes the system. Each member of the system - clients and servers are integrated through common languages or objects. The idea is that a person interested in the service manual for a piece of equipment or operational system - a service engineer or client at a PC, or in the field using a lap top, wireless phone or other device not only could look up information but order parts, update systems, see graphic display, talk to experts, hold a meeting between the consultant and the providers and the home system would gather information about what is going on and what works and what doesn’t. The service providers can MS.net, oracle.net, IBM.net Sun.net, AOL.net, apple.net, excite.net, go.net, yahoo.net, - plug and play just like the cell phone. For $ 50 a month your ISP becomes an interactive system to other services. The contractor enters his phone book, calendar, and buys services from engineers, accountants, and get free services from suppliers, banks, sub contractors, etc. Those connected have a great advantage over those out of the loop. The idea of references is still useful but you can also do a up to the minute search by a hyper text link that includes the key words - http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C;page=create http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C&page=show&topic=Nano%20Technology&sb=summary What Microsoft wants to do is control the servers with a MS provided next, next generation NT platform operating system called XML but not open and universal. The .net system works with devices that have .net codes built it. Microsoft products will run on .net as a server - client interface - XML files, XML data base, XML storage, XML index, id, calendar, updates, notifications, out in the cloud on MS XML server software doing object imbedded codes. The applications become notations or services on the page. The universal canvas API. Hardware drives, across all the devices and the .net controller in the a cloud. Development applications are built on the XML kits connected to the browser. This was Netscape’s vision from the beginning.. This is why MS had to kill Netscape and the NOISE group and what the browser wars was really about. The platform is in the sky - Microsoft idea is the new version of what Netscape and SUN - the NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun, and Everyone else ) started talking about five years ago. The server ( web site ) company internets, the ISP, wireless devices, i-appliances, game panels, can all use audio, video, photograph, office applications - word process, presentation, spread sheets, data bases, in a interactive way using a server AGENT or personalized options given the application, the device used, and the pattern of application - on a rental or fee-for-service basics. In other words all the complex stuff is up stream - rich standards based on XML works between platforms and programs but at the server not on the PC - This is the critical and profound change. The server in the cloud does the transfer and integration - is the platform in the sky that can work with all kinds of devices. It can take a record from one place in one format and uses it in another program in a different format guided by the smart agent. Information can be used almost anywhere from almost anywhere. The devices can use keyboards, mouse, voice, hand writing, file transfer, clip board, as inputs as well as agent intelligence on the server and user interface. Not news - cloudy vision part two : http://www.wired.com/news/lycos/0,1306,37168,00.html Gates for the first time emphasized the Web browser as the central application of computing. Echoing remarks made by counterparts Marc Andreessen and Scott McNealy four years ago, Gates said the network is even more important than the computer. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/topics/f2k/default.asp Microsoft is creating an advanced new generation of software that will meld computing and communications in revolutionary new ways; offer every developer the tools to transform the Web and all other aspects of the computing experience; and enable businesses, knowledge workers and consumers to employ technology on their own terms. See cloudy vision in http://www.wiredbrain.com/gates.htm year Bill Gates ( reference to HTML ) Building Internet Applications Professional Developers Conference San Francisco -- March 13, 1996 http://www.wiredbrain.com/bill-g.htm Maybe the only place to find these remarks
But all empires lack vision and ability to change.
I soon will be able to pull down the word processing "service" tied to voice and video "services". I will be able to pull down interactive forms "service", a search service, marketing services, shopping service, broadcast and narrow cast services, product design and production services, travel, insurance, investment and banking services designed and distributed by other services .
All these services we now called companies, producers, distributors, stores and markets become part of the services network. The telephone company ( tele - sounds )is a service: television ( tele - pictures ) networks and stations are service including broadcast ( send sound and picture over a wide area ): computers are not a machine or thing but provide systems capacity to do something, assign traits and store information and programs ( software to help machines - do stuff ). All these THINGS are becoming parts of a system of service with nodes and terminals.
The core of the global service system is the operational codes and languages. Everyone has to understand ever one else and terminals need to talk to nodes and servers need to communicate with servers in common coded packets moving a mega-speeds back and fourth. These codes and languages are extensions of Hyper Text Transfer
Imagine a fat monitor similar to the Imax. It plugs into the electrical system that creates the life force. Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now power the internet. The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline to the backbone of the internet.
Then runs everything. The Star Office is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn’t need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
In doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.
How about http://www.wiredbrain.com/battle.wav
and too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other. The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead. The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.
Standards include such protocals as ftp ( file transfer ) and operations such as Java.
XML: the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged:
I can write this text, I could insert picture or sound. I can create links ( hyper- links ) or imbedded functions ( scripts in several languages ) - e-mail it or post it to a web site that has scripts to run different functions. It is getting easier but still has lots of bugs.
Microsoft is again in a catch up position. Power corrupts and the lack of real time painful competition is what corrupted power means.
When you open a web page, hypertext and imbedded objects can connect functions - edit, ( word processing ) analyze ( search, data bases ) and interoperate with each other using voice, images, data and text.
Providers of services - software, engineering, analysis, B2B, OEM, etc.. could all deal with each other using different languages, platforms and systems. This is the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged. System can adjust and improve in real time. A contractor in the field can order supplies from the best low cost provider, check delivery, pay accounts, check balances, talk to sub-contractors, revise plans and schedules, have the design changed and fixed, and 1000 and more details. No one can build a house without a cell phone - can any service be provided without real time communications ?
Who can do this unless they spend lots of money for services and software ?
How about a search attached to stories.
Windows in the cloudy sky:
:
Gates to everone - "Look upon my works ye humble of the earth and give up."
It’s not hardware, it’s not software, but it is service-ware. Companies that don’t sell machines or programs but universal services. Sign-up and we give you the container, the link, and all the services you can think of and many that you haven’t though of yet.
Protocol:
He who controls the interface controls the system.
We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers
sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent
some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity"
for the Pacific Rim. The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections between utility network computers.
Like the human brain, the
internet's packets system
can reconfigure itself to work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible to
build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would
have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken
into short message blocks now called like a DNA molecule, and
able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred.
With many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed
the Internet, click here for the emerging history
"packets,"
each containing its own
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What is Java from c/net Sun's Scott McNealy says that Java is a new kind of industrial revolution. Microsoft's Bill Gates says Java is just another programming language.
Either way, Java is probably the most hyped technology in the .
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It's about time ! The main line press has caught-on
to the power of the internet ? What wiredbrain and others ( mainly Netscape,
Oracle, ( considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions.
b. An authoritative or wise statement or prediction ) IBM, SunMicrosystems
and the NOISE group ) have been talking about since Netscape 1.0 and WINS
connections - the virtual office and the Network Computer has now arrived
in the PC world.
" The new concept ( only to you ) goes by
a variety of names: instant Web office; virtual office; instant intranet;
Web tone; Internet dial tone; and so on. The idea is to provide everything
a user needs on a central server. Users can then access that server over
the Internet with just a terminal and a phone line. Then they "rent"
Internet and intranet applications for as little as $10 to $20 per person
per month. (That's a fraction of the per-user cost of an in-house intranet.)"
and a box that cost 10 % of a PC work station (
$500 vs. $5,000 ) and doesn't crash, doesn't need systems managers, and
doesn't require constant upgrades but does need bandwidth.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1997
Instant Intranets Just Stage One in Emerging Market Struggle
Jesse Berst, Editorial Director ZDNet AnchorDesk
What is clear but not said is this is the end of the Age of the PC. First the main frame, then the PC now the NC -
There is now a immense industry we can call
IT
“INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY”.
IT now represents the critical
modern enterprise growing to be a quarter of all economic activity.
IT
is a greater engine
for growth than railroads in the 19th century, oil and chemical industries
in the first half of this century. IT is equal to the auto industry, which
reached 25 % in the 1950s. “IT” like the auto industry includes the hardware
( the computer or car), the infrastructure, (communications and networks
or the roads) the energy ( software or oil ) the services, ( consultants
and staff or Gas Stations ) and parts ( modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, drives, or car radios ).
IT includes the computers ( the car ), the roads ( the telecom business
), services ( software ) and the social educational infrastructure.
There
are millions of new jobs and additional people needed world wide. IT
provides the web of
life for modern enterprise - design, production, distribution, sales, of
goods and services. IT is the growth industry and in labor market.
Unlike the auto industry the IT business evolves quickly.
New hardware computers and chips, new methods of communications, new applications
evolve quickly. IT is quickly becoming one unified, highly complex living
system on a global basis. The whole is more than the sum of the parts -
synergy that comes from elaborate interactions.
There are critical “flash point” - global telcom systems
based on satellites connect to earth stations that can use telephone lines
including new high bandwidth technologies, optic fiber, wireless broadband,
and cable connections. The high bandwidth connections use improved modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s
to provide support for networks. These new networks provide what have been
called telephones, television, personal computers, and something new -
beyond what now are common utilities.
The common base system is the “browser”, which will
provide all of the application in a Java type objects - in a Video User
Interface (VUI) using chips that can handle digital TV and Digital Hard
Drives for storage all as parts of the new super modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s.
The interface uses program “packets” as well as content
“packets” the The difference between program
and content no longer is significant. With bandwidth the “word processor”
is attached to the files and comes as an instant updated package at the
moment of use. This is Netscape’s, Oracle and others “vision” and the real
challenge to Microsoft.IT is why the DOJ Microsoft case
is important. What was called the “operation system” OS now becomes VUI,
an interface between a “terminal” ( telephone, TV, and PC = NC ) and a
communications media.
operational software is contained
within the data
.
Berst Alert FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1997
In Europe it has been traditionally difficult
to sell NEW type autos. People say they don’t want to buy a car, which
they keep for an average of seven years, until the bugs have been worked
out and has built a reputation for reliability. GM, IBM, and other big
corporations often do not have the best product or price but the power
of marketing, distribution, service, and habit. They depend on people’s
unwillingness to be pioneers. Those on the frontier get shot with arrows.
Now billions of dollars, huge personal fortunes, the rise and fall of great enterprises depend on complex technologies few understand. Technology has become a horse race, the fastest win rather than a dog or pony show where the judges reflect conventional values, where a horse of a different color is unlikely to win. In the now systems of knowledge, a 14 year old New Zealand boy’s solution to the millennium bug is just as much in the race as the show horses from the most established stables.
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The economics profession, the federal reserve,
national planners, and the stock market is just learning to deal with this
change in economic behavior. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape
are working on a Java
Machine that will be the core of most new computer applications. Suites
of application either on the "video" hard drive or on a systems
server will run on these virtual machines, so will autos, and all kinds
of "real" machines. This replaces Windows, Dos or other OS and
MS knows it. The communications industry, in fact all of Information Technology
(IT) will provide applications, voice, video, data and word processing
on the internet, intranets, extranets, are all built on this CORE system
which provides on demand applications. This is the BIG picture. This is
the central theme. This is the main thing. Do you "get it" ?
Review
the technology with the central role of core systems clearly in mind.
There are several important issues just over the horizon that involve billions of dollars, millions of people, our social economic and political systems. Issues as important as Religion, Political freedom, economic survival and prosperity; BUT little understood because it's happening so fast and the issues are technical.
No one controls the future. Most likely market
forces, the laws of supply and demand, will shape the future. The
issues are a package but each element is often looked at separately. The shape of the PC or NC (network computer) - the
hardware The style of the AIP Application
Programming Interfaces
New
on Java from Excite The cost of retail
broadband communications - @home, WebTV, wireless, cable, phone wires The cost of the backbone - wholesale communications
Satellites Optic Fiber cables micro-waves
THE NOISE on packets.htm for now
Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel, Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World. We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey," Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name, the Web, but we may not have a destination"
The JavaBeans-CORBA camp--IBM, Netscape, Novell, and Sun Microsystems--painted Microsoft's solution as incompatible with Internet standards, and one rival predicted that the software giant would be forced to support CORBA in the near future.
The Basic Image is a utility communications device, connected to a service network where the program and content come in downloaded elements.
Legend has it that James Gosling conceived Java after realising the card-operated door to his hotel room contained a CPU. Imagining how to harness millions of isolated consumer microprocessors, Gosling quickly realised the obstacle was the absence of a common language across incompatible chips and operating systems.
To this day, it pays to remember Java's original intent. In all the excitement, many people forget that Java works not only for PCs and NCs but is uniquely suited to diminutive, high-utility consumer devices like pagers, mobile phones, PDAs, even smart cards.
The Diba deal is Sun CEO Scott McNealy's big push to make
Java the lingua franca of everything electronic; to put the Java logo on toasters, TVs and probably toys, too.
The major point about
PC's ( Intel and MicroSoft ) is that they have become way too complex -
Technology goes from the experts, to the hobby and professionals to a utility.
The PC has been used by people who were in the business now it's a common
utility. As a utility it is HOPELESSLY too difficult, crash prone, complex
et al.. The hard fact is that the way to do this is to transfer operations
from individual machines to the network. Explorer 4.0 open windows format
makes PC and network windows fold into each Most of the
new material is on Packets.htm The
NEXT STEP is to have the "
The programming model lets you write
stateless objects or components."
application program interface on the network rather than your hard drive
BUT that breaks MS power as THE OS.
The issue is power = money = control = more money ! An open OS means others
can offer complete packages on "open" networks.
MS Wants To Make A Simple OS (07/20/97; 8:58 a.m. EDT) By Stuart Glascock and Mary Jo Foley, Computer Reseller News SEATTLE -- Microsoft has a new mission statement--to eradicate complexity.
The company will use this week's Windows Platform Briefing, to be held in Seattle, to highlight its emerging emphasis on simpler-to-use programming models and user interfaces in its next-generation operating systems and applications. Those changes could go a long way toward simplifying network setup for VARs and reducing the amount of code third-party developers need to write. "What we are going to show in terms of simplicity takes some of the [user interface] concepts much further ahead," said Jim Allchin, senior vice president of Microsoft's Personal and Business Systems Division. "Frankly, these systems just are not simple enough. We do have a lot of IQ being focused on just getting simplified."
Microsoft also will reiterate during the event the familiar "Windows Everywhere" and total-cost-of-ownership themes, Allchin said. Ranging from handheld devices to operating systems with Internet Explorer 4.0 to server suites in BackOffice and on up to mainframes, Microsoft plans to promote products that are simpler, more intuitive, totally Internet-integrated and, most important, more pervasive than ever.
The platform briefing will signify something just short of an all-out, corporate-direction-changing revolution, Allchin said. It will include up to three hours of product demonstrations and an emphasis on looking ahead. At the top end, one of the ambitious directions in which Microsoft is heading is scaling up into mainframe-level computing, he added. "In three years, we want to do everything a mainframe can do," Allchin said. "A lot of that is based not only on software, but [on] what the hardware is capable of doing. . . .
There are very few places where you couldn't operate our software, but there are more features we want to add." What will distinguish NT from a mainframe operating system, however, will be ease of setup, use and maintenance, Allchin said. He cited NT 5.0's media management capabilities, allowing it to support hierarchical storage management, CD jukebox, WORM drives and more advanced tape management. OnNow power management, faster boot sequencing and new features like EasyNet--technology that will allow customers to set up network configurations more quickly and easily--also will be key, he said. Behind the simpler interfaces that resellers and developers can expect in the next versions of Windows, NT and Office is a new transactional programming model evolving out of the latest iteration of the Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). MTS 2.0, which currently is in beta testing as part of the Internet Information Server 4.0 beta, is the first product to show off this programming model. "
No one has really shown the power of integration of HTTP and transaction services together," Allchin said. "Basically it's three prongs coming together. It's the object model coming together, the transaction system being there, and you can access it and control it through HTTP or Web access, which is very exciting." Said Graham Anderson, group product manager for MTS and Microsoft Message Queue Server: "
The transactional programming model has a very simple objective, to hide complexity.
There are relatively few API calls--four or five--that need to be made.
The programming model lets you write stateless objects or components." Stateless components will allow developers to write less code, automatically linking to databases and other information stores. Over time, the transactional programming model will converge with the next version of Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), Anderson said. Like COM, the transactional programming model will be pervasive. With release 2.0, the developer is making MTS available on Windows 95; NT 4.0; the fourthcoming NT Server Enterprise Edition product; and, ultimately, in Memphis and NT 5.0. To some resellers, however, the transactional programming model sounds less like a new paradigm than Microsoft's return to client/server basics. "To us, [Internet Information Server 4.0] isn't really a new programming model," said Dean Riley, intranet/Internet product manager at reseller Software Spectrum, Garland, Texas. "It's more of a coming around to the traditional client/server programming model. This way, you can use traditional tools to build reusable components. With each update of their tools and server products, they are coming more and more full circle," Riley said.
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