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October 24, 2001
I attended an SDForum
I attended an SDForum Web Services SIG meeting last night. HP were giving a presentation of their Web Services tools and UDDI public registry. Someone in the auiencee mentioned an XML Database product that I hadn't heard of before from Lazy Software.
Tonight I'm meeting up with Jim from Novell to talk about directory servers and stuff. And, Allan, a star writer for Overload, is coming along too.
We also went to the XML Edge conference to walk around the exhibition floor. There weren't that many booths, perhaps about twenty, and then there were only a couple of companies that were worth talking to.
I met Jim Gray today. Three of us Sleepycat employees went to talk with him about XML and databases. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1999 for his work on database tansactions. Microsoft opened a small office in San Francisco for him and Gordon Bell to hang out and do cool stuff. Amongst them was the terraserver, a humongous database containing satellite images of earth.
James, our neighbour, pointed out this super cool website. It appears to be some kind of Finish yoghurt advert. Milko.
Posted by John at October 24, 2001 12:00 PM