Mood:
happyNow Playing: Nervous Ticks - Insect kingdom is rocked by application of turpentine (pesty side)
Topic: Microsoft and VCSY
Pay attention. I own stock in VCSY. I have been writing about VCSY and owning VCSY stock since 2000. I started posting here: http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/postlist plug in "Portuno_Diamo"
I post about the VCSY technology because of what I read in 2000 in a whitepaper on MLE, VCSY's micro-kernel executive - these days called a runtime and Emily, VCSY's very high level language as an XML based scripting language (what they used to call dynamic languages 8 years ago).
In fact, VCSY was abused for years by those who adamantly felt XML scripting languages were old technology. Where are those people now? Still around. "Lerking".
It was. It's going back to the future today... just as the Emily whitepaper said it would be... back in 2000.
I write about technology because I've worked on the technology side of industrial manufacturing and process over thirty years of design engineering and development of (back at the beginning S100 and Intel Multibus assembler and PL/I - PL/M with CP/M. Later MSDOS development. Also with mainframe and distributed parallel processors (industrial automation is so far advanced beyond business "automation". That's actually about to change and it will be a fight to get it used in industrial automation because Microsoft dominates as a platform for small scale SCADA built using PLC's and fat clients.) and on and on until now when I am active in the industrial automation industry from a regulation driven perspective.
So it's going to be a couple days if any before I can get my hands on a substantial amount of the text. But, I do have a patch well chosen and provided, so I can milk this for a few days. Heck. Who am I kidding? I could probably do 10000 words on that.
Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner so that would allow for some quality reading time... something the significant other will really appreciate, I'm sure.
Hey! And where did THAT soapbox come from?
So, the best way to find out if I know what I am talking about is that you should take what I write to a high school computer club, college computer club, golf geeks, anyone you know can give you an unbiased opinion and be able to explain it so you can understand it.
Or someone who can answer questions.
If he throws his hands up and rejects the concept of web services, listen to what he has to say. Then, find somebody who knows what web services are and what they can do. Let them read what I write and have them point out the problems. Then come here or any other blog I am posting on (I need space. I'm an expansive kind of guy) and give us the report.
If you want to read my opinions, they are here for free. I don't get paid in any way to post anywhere. I do it for the sheer enjoyment of writing and studying the art of the machine.
We're poised on the precipice of an exploding freedom of platforms that will offer the same kind of productivity and enlightenment and community connectedness the original web page surge presented.
We're watching the web pages become more than electronic magazines. We're seeing, at this particular point, the web page becoming an application similar in robustness and facility of similar applications on the desktop. With continuously increasing bandwidth and throughput, the long spoken of "semantic web" is now at a threshold for moving into the next true age of the internet.
And that's finally becoming a verifiable reality when, for years, VCSY longs were literally the only folks capable of pointing to technology tailored for an optimum foundational architecture upon which to build semantic web processing facilities.
IBM has taken that idea one step further in patent 7058671 citing patent 744 as prior art for the foundation of a way to provide an automated software factory able to produce an application specified by the user. And Microsoft followed up with patent 7302677 citing 744 as prior art for the foundation of building a model testing system for software on websites. Quite a valuable patent idea, I believe.
And that's only two examples of things VCSY's 6826744 patent claims can accomplish.
My badge of sincerity in the cause of computing is an autographed copy of Microcomputers/Microprocessors: Hardware, Software, and Applications (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation) by John L. Hilburn (Hardcover - Jun 1976)
If you're missing one, yep, it's me. Drop me a line. I moved to the M.E. and didn't know I had your borrowed (uhhh...you do remember you loaned it to me, right?) book was in the boxes. Sorry. I've given it a loving home through a modern nomad's life through life. You must be old as $#!@. So am I. I at least hope you be and be happy and healthy.
Why didn't I return the book? I also have a terrible attention span and very bad organizational skills.
So , when I remember to do something about sending that sucker back to you, it's suddenly sounding like a bad excuse, so you'll be receiving it from me shortly... if I can find your transient ass.
Besides, it was a great thing to have on the shelf in the office. I looked like I know what the hell I was talking about. Thanks to people like you, I did.
Thank you. You can have your book back now.
