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From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org>
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Subject: Re: Netscape Commerce Servers
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:54:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > Does anyone know about FreeBSD ports of the Commerce server and the News
> > > server? I know we've got Navigator ports, but I'd like to get a couple
> > > server ports as well if we have them available.
> > The BSDI commerce server runs (but didn't Netscape just drop BSDI
> > so the can concentrate on the NT platform where Microsoft has
> > already won?).
> Well actually Netscape is dropping support for all non-threaded OS's for their
> servers.. 

> Matthew S. Bailey

	I was at a party hanging out with three or four of Netscape's
	developement team over the weekend -- I didn't get the impression
	that they were doing either of these things.

	Granted we chatted more about the client side and business
	model issues -- mostly about Java and JavaScript which is what this 
	particularly crew are working on most.  I suggested that 
	JavaScript (a.k.a. LiveScript take on one feature --
	that the <script> tag take attributes like:

	<script src="/path/to/script/file" ver="$required_script_parser_here">
	<p>
		Things displayed to non script capable browsers go here.</p>.
		</script>

	(to get rid of that atrocious code-embedded-in-comments hack).

	(He said they'll look at it for version 4.x).

	So, Matthew, what's the source of your info?  I'd like to see
	more about this.

	Does FreeBSD support pthreads or some other implementation of 
	threads?  Any comments on Linux support for it?  I realize that
	Netscape hasn't been putting commerce servers on "free" OS' --
	personally I'd just as soon see them actually create a whole
	Linux distribution ("buy our server -- get the OS for free").