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 HTML-based OS?
By SKillBot on March 16, 2000 2:44 PM
(CP) This is one of the most confused articles I've seen in months, but it's interesting enough to mention. AltaVista, the search engine company, has announced their completely web-based operating system which will "go head-to-head with the Mac OS and Windows." The point of it is to simplify web development. With it, you can magically write a 5,000 line ecommerce program in 50 lines. And how exactly does it work? This kind of focus on the Web cannot be accomplished with conventional operating systems since they are hardware-centric, not Web-centric. (sarcasm) I hate how my operating systems are so focused on my hardware! The OS software called Aestiva is available for many platforms, including Linux, Windows, MacOS7-9 and MacOSX for $799. I would think it needs to be independant of an underlying OS before it can really compete with one, though.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 17, 2000 8:19 AM
Actually, this isn't really an OS, more of a web-server add-on. It does have it's advantages, though. Like CGI, it is cross-platform (since all it requires is a CGI 1.1 compliant web server). But, like Active Server Pages or Cold Fusion, it uses proprietary BASIC-like tags to do coding. Unlike these, though, it uses a built-in database and you do your development through a web-browser, with no need for a client installed. Several larger sites ae using it already. It sounds like an interesting product... at least in theory.
CritterNYC
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