Mood:  smelly

I had a little problem posting on Yahoo tonight and I decided I would start posting on the blogs a bit more. Reading the message boards is a trashy habit. Some places you can get useful information, but, most places you're going to be juggled and scammed. So read the message boards with a watchful eye and watch every word. 

So, I wrote this as a post intended to go on the board. But, thanks for the goof, Yahoo. you've motivated me to start blogging again. I owe ya.

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Me? I'm just enjoying the show. It costs a fortune to keep you guys in the field so whoever's throwing their money away on such poor representation should be allowed to get a full snoot of it.

VCSY longs bring announcements of a new age of computing in 2000 and Al and his guys bring nothing but insults and ridicule and fail to give any hint they know anything about the subject.

And we have Al dumping his previous incarnation out of the blue. Al claims it's because he used profanity but his entire post history is crammed full of as much profane abuse against VCSY and the scam he claims it to be, the VCSY shareholders and anyone stupid enough to be associated with them.

Al jettisoned his posting history and now kalafella announces he's tepe, the rabid anti-vcsy poster on Raging Bull VCSY. http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_V/threadview?m=tm&bn=33693&tid=6047&mid=6070&tof=3&frt=1

Tepe knows how to toe the legal line and there was always a day of reckoning where he had to announce he was the same poster here as at RB. Why did he decide to come clean so quickly and succinctly here? And more-over, why NOW?

Microsoft is making all kinds of noise about some amazing capabilities while articles are coming to the fore about the shortcomings and failures of sharepoint and .Net.

There are two specific pieces here:

From a selection of 200+ developers including MSFT MVP's and legends casting a vote of no confidence on ADO.Net Entity Framework: http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/

and this critique on Sharepoint, Microsoft's new collaboration phenomena nobody knew.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700347.aspx

The morons will tell you Microsoft builds crap on purpose. What they don't tell you is Microsoft builds crap because they are fielding their version of a minimal build of a set of technology claims they can get away with.

Figure it out.

Meanwhile, the basher action is heating up. The Markman Hearing date is still ahead the end of this month. A last minute delay by a Microsoft lawyer who suddenly discovered he had an appointment conflict on that original day; a day scheduled since last year in East Texas.

OK another couple weeks of wiggle room. Then Microsoft will have to face up to their weak case.

It is weak, isn't it Al? That Microsoft brief got shot full of holes by the article here: http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/

but you won't acknowledge that because it gives you the sweats. I'll tell you what happened. Somebody in Microsoft scrood your little hedge fund pooch.

That's a shame. Nice to see you guys shaping up, though. Nothing like eyes on the back of your head to make you sit up straight and act civil.

Now, audience. Sit back and watch what a few million in hedge fund shenanigans can pull off.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:38 AM EDT

Updated: Friday, 4 July 2008 12:51 AM EDT

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This is a nice out of the way place now to put supporting information so it doesn't clutter up the baby's room. Snooky is growing fast and we're going to need more space before long.

So, sorry to put this in such an out of place place, but one of the Raging Bull Treeforters reposted an RB post I made a month after the SiteFlash patent was granted in November, 2004. In fact, the post is right before Christmas 2004.

 http://ragingbull.quote.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=VCSY&read=214598

By: Portuno_Diamo 25 Dec 2004, 12:49 PM EST

Msg. 142039 of 214604 Jump to msg. #

In the spirit of the season I thought I might exhange gifts so the readers can see who has the biggest heart (I know I do) So I'm laying this little bit of punditry here at the foot of the tree and let's just call it "from the guys at the treefort to all of you who wants to know" SiteFlash technology By: cougar24 on December 23, 2004 at 5:29:41 PM There hasn't been much discussion regarding the SiteFlash patent. Does anyone know of a competing technology/company we can research this against? Is this a technology that is in demand? Is there a market for licensing this type of technology to larger companies? I know absolutely nothing about this. Any input is appreciated. SiteFlash Part 1 By: Portuno_Diamo on December 23, 2004 at 10:29:05 PM This message was edited by Moderator at 2004-12-23 22:29:5 Beginning with the patent: United States Patent 6,826,744 McAuley November 30, 2004 Please reference: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,826,744.WKU.&OS=PN/6,826,744&RS=PN/6,826,744 Said patent is a: System and method for generating web sites in an arbitrary object framework This is the SiteFlash concept: build any sort of applications and deploy them as websites that fit tailored information for any user in any form or function. Notice I said "build applications" the way you build websites. It's very important to read BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION to appreciate the problems faced by programmers of all types using traditional programming languages to build, deploy and maintain complex distributed applications. The more you understand this background and the plights facing software application development managers facing an expanded stream of data and diversity into the 21st century. It begins: A system and method for generating computer applications in an arbitrary object framework. A way of building useful software without having to worry about where it will be used or how it will need interact with other applications. In other words, this invention provides for a technological means to build software programs that perform useful functions and they all reside in a structure that doesn't care how you perform functions or present your information. The framework makes the mechanics invisible and you use the applications in the way you see fit. The method separates content, form, and function of the computer application so that each may be accessed or modified separately. Notice the language here. It's very important to understanding why this patent is so important. Background: Several years ago the hot idea in web-design and a major shift inefficiencies was the segmentation of website content and form (format) into databases that could be managed discretely and applied globally. This is what Content Management and Format Management and Publishing Management software is about; making sure you can put out consistent information content to your userbase (all the people in your computer networked community) and making sure you can format that information anywhere you use it. In other words; It will do no good to spell out a BART Schedule if you have the numbers jumbled together on somebody's screen because you didn't "program" how to present that sort of web page at this one isolated terminal in BFEgypt. We now see, however, that McAuley calls upon his experience as a distributed computing architect (and who knows how much influence from MLE - this is precisely where MLE is most at home) to add and include Interoperability and Automation in the Content/Format Management paradigm by stating: The method separates content, form, and function of the computer application so that each may be accessed or modified separately. Note they claim to provide this management idea to the actual functional applications they are deploying. Thus, we are no longer talking about managing website look and feel and information. We are now talking about making those website automatic extensions of whatever application (from simple protocol tranlsations to intricate statistical processing over multiple virtual extensions working different application on multiple machines - perhaps as far as breaking the computation tasks to distribute one parallel task over multiple sets of machines. (orders of thousands) We see now the key excitement in this patent grant is that the very concept of Automation Management consisting of managed sets of content (base of information from baried sources), format (look and feel for any user), and functionality (operations you want the computers in your network to do without intervention by operators - automation). Three processes used to create complex software applications such as web sites are form, function , and content . Form includes graphic designs, user interfaces, and graphical representations created by a designer or a group of designers. Function includes logical functionality, which can be software code created by a programmer or group of programmers. Form includes informative content. Informative content can include written, recorded, or illustrated documentation, such as photographs, illustrations, product marketing material, and news articles. Content can be created by writers, photographers, artists, reporters, or editors. And it appears this sweeping concept is being applied for on a grand scale. A "Function includes logical functionality, which can be software code created by a programmer or group of programmers." "The method includes creating arbitrary objects, managing the arbitrary objects throughout their life cycle in an object library, and deploying the arbitrary objects in a design framework for use in complex computer applications." All of these functions can be managed in the same database and user interface fashion as is used in Publishing Management. VCSY holds a patent on building distributed application frameworks using a wide variety of methods and it looks like a pretty broad grant to me. So this capability that is outlined here can be encapsulated into a programming language which builds web-strung interoperable objects (gee, I wonder where this is all going?) This under SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION and begin imagining The present invention provides a system and method for generating software applications that substantially eliminates or reduces disadvantages and problems associated with previously developed systems and methods used for generation of software applications. Pretty bold claim, Roscoe. Super duper claim, actually. If taken with all claims in this text, it means the more you use this method, the easier it will become for ALL users witin and developers within the network. Precisely the opposite real world reality of life-cycle management using traditional programming languages. We all realize, of course that patent officials go over the wording in ever line of text in a patent application, right? In other words, someone with expertise in this area read this and said, "Well, yes their invention does cover this area." Right? Slap the stamp on it and we'll be on our way, Mister GovmintMan. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for generating software applications in an arbitrary object framework. In other words, we don't care what you're using unrelated data from disparate databases or whether those databases and applications are IBM based or Linux or Unix running Windows or any operating system running on any system. NOTE: This invention can meet those challenges BY IT'S VERY DESIGN, thus the claim is made and granted because the structure of the system demonstrates the validity of the claim. This is a central multiplier for any conglomeration of inter-networked individuals (office LAN, WAN or WWW or whatever) since it means they can use the applications they?ve used for twenty years and mate them up to the latest Microsoft or custom-made application and provide services across a wide path - and if it's done once, it's in the library and easily done thousands more times. "Still another technical advantage of the present invention is that it enables syndication of the software application." The system can build applications that install themselves across the network along with documentation and any other forms of personel/software management required. As noted above, functionality is separate from form and content. Consequently, a user can easily introduce a new look for the application or syndicate the content and functionality of the application to another group without having to recode all of the objects needed to access content. And this is the capability being granted exclusivity to VCSY. I don't get it. What am I missing here? Are there any other outfits who do this level of distributed computation and resources management even without a patent? They all say they do some subset of the overall scheme and tout certain tools or toolsets or suites to accomplish these tasks. SiteFlash is the set of tools that you will use to get WebMethods and BusinessObjects-like tools and suites of tools into the hands of the ordinary business installation. We do not have a copy of the drawings at this website so you'll have to use your imagination perthe following list: FIG. 1 illustrates a prior art workflow diagram for generating a software product; FIG. 2 is a hierarchical workflow diagram for one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a flow diagram for one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a flow diagram for the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 4. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the components of one embodiment of the present invention used to generate web sites; and DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION It sounds as though the diagrams suggest this patent addresses the inefficiencies of traditional software product development. Actually, the entire thrust of this patent is the capability to build websites as individual applications which are then syndicated throughout your customer base and able to link up with others of like ilk and capability. This time-saving capability has been claimed in VCSY PRs as being a key savings in the construction of complex interoperable websites. If it works properly the key advantage to this type of system is that the more it is developed and deployed, the easier it is to develop and deploy and maintain. SiteFlash Part 2 By: Portuno_Diamo on December 23, 2004 at 10:22:50 PM This message was edited by Moderator at 2004-12-23 22:22:50 Continued from Part 1 So now you should be able to think through the following claims and see if you can make sense of what this machine-building-machine does. Item 1 spells out the general claim that the system is capable of building computer applications the way content management systems build published interactive websites. The key here is to make a distinction between interactive and interoperable. Interactive is you pushing the website buttons and looking for the answers. Interoperable is your own computer pushing the buttons and providing you with answers formatted the way you like. Also stated in Item 1. is one of the keys to this system is in "creating arbitrary objects with corresponding arbitrary names" Notice this is a key concept in that the patent application takes pains to point out the use of these "arbitrary objects" in the following excerpt from a narrative on FIG. 4: "Arbitrary objects may include any combination of application logic and data desired by a developer. Arbitrary objects can include text file pointers, binary file pointers, compiled executable scripts, database queries, shell commands, remote call procedures, global variables and local variables. Arbitrary objects may also include cached data queries and executables. The arbitrary object framework allows arbitrary objects to be referenced in a consistent manner regardless of the type of object. Also, the arbitrary object framework allows local arbitrary objects to either override global parent arbitrary objects or inherit capabilities and data from the global parent arbitrary object." "Arbitrary objects can execute any function that can be run or understood by the host computer system so that any underlying functionality of the operating system used by the host system can be defined as an object within the arbitrary framework. Legacy data, document objects, CPI programs, and database queries can all be encapsulated as objects within the arbitrary framework. The arbitrary object can be accessed by an arbitrary object name. Arbitrary objects are not tied to their functionality. One arbitrary object can be easily replaced with another arbitrary object of another type." "Arbitrary objects can be managed in an object library. The life cycle of the arbitrary objects may be managed in a consistent manner using revision tracking, roll-back, and sign-off. The object library can include separate specialized object libraries that can be administered separately by different developers in each area. For instance, for a web site used to generate a newspaper, there may be an advertising object library that is physically distinguished from other object libraries, such as an object library for sports or an object library for news. Therefore, queries for advertising can be created without impacting any other area of the web site." "Arbitrary objects can be deployed from the object library into a container page to generate the web site. The container page is a truly dynamic page. Unlike prior art methods, where a static copy of information is often pushed over a firewall to a live web site, the present invention incorporates object caching. An arbitrary object can be cached, rather than caching an entire page. When the arbitrary object is cached, certain elements of the arbitrary object can be specified as dynamic elements while others can be specified as static elements. Therefore, a web site can contain multiple dynamic web pages wherein objects used to construct the form, function, and content of the web page can contain dynamic elements and static elements. This provides flexibility for what needs to be computed or processed at the time that someone, such as a web user, accesses the web page." The numbered claims starting at 2 spell out the basic functions required to construct and manage a software based computer and a software programming language to run on that virtual computer starting with: 2. The method of claim 1, wherein said computer application is a web site. The numbered claims from Item 3 to Item 53 describe the elements of a programming language that can build websites (on individual and mass scales) to function as entire applications. If you like we can focus later on the constructs possible if you use the 53 claims. Thus, in VCSY's world, the website is the computer and all websites can interact with all other websites without the intervention of humans. And that website computer can be programmed to run any application on any machine anywhere the network reaches. With smartcards and RFID that "anywhere the network reaches" goes into your pocket and into your home easily. If you hit a snag simply ask the question and I'll focus on specific claims or content or contention. What is claimed is: 1. A method for generating a computer application on a host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates a content of said computer application, a form of said computer application and a functionality of said computer application, said method comprising: creating arbitrary objects with corresponding arbitrary names of various object types for generating said content of said computer application, said form of said computer application, and said functionality of said computer application; managing said arbitrary objects in an object library; and deploying said arbitrary objects from said object library into a design framework to create said computer application. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein said computer application is a web site. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise text file pointers. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise binary file pointers. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise compiled executables. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise shell commands. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise remote procedure calls. 8. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise global variables. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise cached executables. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise cached database queries. 11. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise local variables. 12. The method of claim 1, wherein said various object types comprise local objects and global parent objects. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein said local objects can override said global parent objects. 14. The method of claim 12, wherein said local objects inherit data from said global parent objects. 15. The method of claim 12, wherein said local objects inherit capabilities from said global parent objects. 16. The method of claim 1, further comprising deploying arbitrary objects globally. 17. The method of claim 1, further comprising deploying arbitrary objects locally. 18. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of managing said arbitrary objects further comprises using revision tracking. 19. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of managing said arbitrary objects further comprises using rollback. 20. The method of claim 1, wherein the step managing further comprises using signoff. 21. The method of claim 1, wherein said arbitrary objects can be accessed and deployed into said design framework using said corresponding arbitrary names. 22. The method of claim 1, further comprising swapping an arbitrary object of one type with an arbitrary object of another type. 23. The method of claim 1, further comprising caching objects. 24. The method of claim 23, wherein the step of caching objects further comprises specifying some elements of an arbitrary object to be dynamic elements and specifying some elements of said arbitrary object to be static elements. 25. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating arbitrary objects in a programming language that is compatible or supported by said host system. 26. A method for generating a web site on a host system in an arbitrary object framework that separates a content of said web site, a form of said web site, and a functionality of said web site, said method comprising: creating arbitrary objects with corresponding arbitrary names of various object types for generating said content of said web site, said form of said web site, and said functionality of said web site; managing said arbitrary objects in an object library; and deploying said arbitrary objects from said object library to a container page to create said web site. 27. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise text file pointers. 28. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise binary file pointers. 29. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise compiled executables. 30. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise shell commands. 31. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise remote procedure calls. 32. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise global variables. 33. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise local variables. 34. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise local objects and global parent objects. 35. The method of claim 34, wherein said local objects can override said global parent objects. 36. The method of claim 34, wherein said local objects inherit data from said global parent objects. 37. The method of claim 34, wherein said local objects inherit capabilities from said global parent objects. 38. The method of claim 26, further comprising deploying arbitrary objects globally. 39. The method of claim 26, further comprising deploying arbitrary objects locally. 40. The method of claim 26, wherein the step of managing said arbitrary objects further comprises using revision tracking. 41. The method of claim 26, wherein the step of managing said arbitrary objects further comprises using rollback. 42. The method of claim 26, wherein the step managing said arbitrary objects further comprises using signoff,. 43. The method of claim 26, wherein said arbitrary objects can be accessed and deployed into said container page using said corresponding arbitrary names. 44. The method of claim 26, further comprising swapping an arbitrary object of one type with an arbitrary object of another type. 45. The method of claim 26, further comprising caching objects. 46. The method of claim 45, wherein the step of caching objects further comprises specifying some elements of an arbitrary object to be dynamic elements and specifying some elements of said arbitrary object to be static elements. 47. The method of claim 26, further comprising generating arbitrary objects in a programming language that is compatible or supported by said host system. 48. The method of claim 26, wherein said various object types comprise cached executable. 49. The method of claim 25, wherein said various object types comprise cached database queries. 50. The method of claim 26, further comprising profiling of a user accessing said web site. 51. The method of claim 26, further comprising personalization of said web site for a user accessing said web site. 52. The method of claim 26, wherein said container page comprises arbitrary objects with both dynamic and static elements. 53. The method of claim 26, wherein said content of said web site and said function of said web site can be syndicated. Oh, and by the way - if you're thinking VCSY is hog-tied to proprietary code: "The present invention provides another technical advantage in that users are not required to use a proprietary language to encode." "It" uses whatever you want to use. A little light reading over the weekend in case you won't be watching "It's a Wonderful Life" with your kids.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 1:56 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 28 June 2008 2:03 PM EDT

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Mood:  lyrical

Tooday is a monumental day. We have realized there is water ice on Mars. Mars now becomes an island in the ocean of space and time. And, if Mars is a possible safari away, Enceladus is Madagascar. A few nuke-pile water splitters and you have a bast easily transported collections of oxygen and hydrogen with which to reach the outer orbits of our celestial womb.

We are about to inherit abundant free energy from new results in materials research. We are about to see information facility to dazzle the most jaded librarian. Such resources placed in the hands of every expert of common computer skills (death of the hardware power programmer) give them the ability to translate and transpose their own subject matter skills into "facilities" (applications' great family of working relationships) by which the experts partner with the unknown to build cultures of productivity spanning continents.

Want to know how to do that? Read patent 6826744. Or you can read that patent about patents Microsoft will have to pay Alcatel $500 million for infringing. What are the patents about? "One patent covers how software users fill out forms. The other is related to the use of a stylus on a tablet computer. "

I thought it was a joke at first. It's real. I wonder how obvious that is tooday?

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 10:52 PM EDT

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Mood:  happy

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.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:45 AM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 17 May 2008 3:09 AM EDT

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Mood:  energetic

Seeing as how some of you have your RSS turned to this channel, maybe you guys might want to be joining the rest of the class here: https://ajaxamine.tripod.com/PortPot/

Bring a pencil.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 10:41 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 1 May 2008 4:08 PM EDT

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Mood:  special

Or: Why I would not talk if I were Wade.

I began writing about VCSY a long time ago. I began writing before they went quiet.

Here's me back when I had more hair:

http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/bbs?post_id=1114211&usernm=Portuno_Diamo

What would you do in VCSY's case when you found out some large companies are determined to take the technology you've secured?

Warren Buffet doesn't say a word to the world about anything except to file the required securities reports about the status of the company and he's a genius, right?

Wade does it and he's called a fraud. That's some even-handed justice you dispense there, Sheriff.

Everything I've written has been an attempt to make sense out of a blanket of bits and pieces of information available publicly across the internet. Back in the early part of this decade, the internet was wild West and you would be amazed how much extraneous information was left laying around back then. Today, folks are more careful and their webmasters more wise.

I've done nothing without the help of a couple dozen people volunteered somehow dedicated to studying or at least becoming informed about the company of their investment. They found and continue to find a great deal of interesting material although all the major software industry moves in technology are building out today what VCSY intellectual property predicted back in 2000 when I first began writing.

They found material. They made that material known. I wrote about what I saw. I draw from being in the business of distributed process computing in the manufacturing industry for a long time. It's what your desktop would be doing if it were making things for a living instead of justifying its existence remembering and regurgitating on your desk.

But, to get to that kind of point across the internet, certain things will need to be in place.

The "Semantic Web" infrastructure first begins with the tagging phase, meaning RDF ( Resource Description Framework) http://www.w3.org/RDF/ microformats and all sorts of schemes will begin turning exising webpages into data resource, or, more accurately, metadata resources. Today, webpages are data resources for humans. They are things you look at, listen to and make all kinds of funny faces in front of.

For over a decade the Web has been dumb. It can only present and crudely interact and only in the realm of publication of content.

What has to happen before the web can be adequately ready to begin publication of function is where folks like Yahoo are stepping in and up. They understand the promise of the future is not a threat to them. Microsoft, for some reason, views the next paradigm of web development as a threat.

Why? Because they aren't ready, and they had since 2000 and billions of dollars to GET ready. And, all they produced was SOAP; an XML based RPC (Remote Procedure Call) transactional concept which works in chains of remote stations intercommunicating with a central server. SOAP allows intercommunicating with a lot of servers. The stink is that you have to be intercommunicating with servers in the first place to get something done in SOAP.

In the VCSY version, the location of the user (client) is the kingpin, and remote servers are real-time libraries, vaults, yellow pages and dictionaries... along with a lot of different additional facilities, as you need or desire.

But, you don't depend on them for your procedural decisions and responses. Too much lag. Too much latency. Too much remote management and clumbsy exchange.

SOAP relies on sending a request for a procedure to be run, and must wait for the response.

An Agent does what it does locally and can process offline and continue the determinism when online happens again.

Microsoft is trying to make this kind of processing happen on their side with Smart Client. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_client

We will have an opportunity to be able to compare the two approaches in the future as both VCSY and Microsoft come out from behind their screens.

 Ray Ozzie is finally out and talking if you believe this Google of his name in the news: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=%22Ray+Ozzie%22

Sounds like a whole lot of air. Very funny nothing is ever said libelously about Microsoft's stealth posture... while reviling Wade as stupid and suspicious.

If you're smart (and I do know some of you are; not many, but several score) you'll study the 7076521 patent and read what's said about Microsoft Smart Client by others.

A Microsoft product called SilkRoute was used as a challenge to the 7076521 patent but failed. Smart Client appears to be a result of Microsoft attempting to do something like the VCSY agent, having found SilkRoute was like AJAX (if XMLhttpRequest is in SilkRoute, then Silkroute worked like AJAX) and had a unidirectional form and not dependable on commercial application footing, but wonderful for doing precisely what Microsoft always intended to do: Present the desktop on the user's browser, but, always keep the processing power as close to Microsoft property as possible.

AJAX is wonderful for a thin client mentality. But, the fit client or fat client have no real place for an AJAX based role in deterministic transactions.

So SilkRoute designers never managed to work on the problems one finds when one wants to relocate the center of processing from the server to the local machine and in as many remote places as the processing in the local machine need. For that reason, MLE is more refined and more a product of network transactional practices than client perimeter defense.

The inventor of 7076521 is the guy who built an agent system for SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). SNMP is the standard network framework for communications hardware systems.

What he learned in SNMP agent work, he applied to http using XML and built MLE, a native XML processing agent... back in 2000.

Fast forward 8 years and, now, we see a group of developers agonizing about how to build an open-source version of an agent.

http://openmanagement.org/message/1156

http://redmonk.com/cote/2008/01/26/of-open-agents-and-wheel-reinvention-the-bmc-performance-manager-agent/

In effect, copying in some crude form using SNMP to affect an internet agent.

Why now, guys? Did it suddenly (this year... finally) dawn on the open-source movement; the value of the agent? Well, apparently, it hasn't been all that obvious to many others. Microsoft sure took their sweet time.

Too broad? These developers are going ahead and building their version by morphing the SNMP agent framework. So, apparently one can code around patent 7076521 by using prior art and doing your own feature development.

I wonder how many nooks, crannies and cull-de-sacks they will bumble into along the evolutionary trail?

I wonder how far evolved MLE is by now? Eight years later.

All this time Microsoft has been working on only half the problem. Now, they've begun to address the second and third half of the problem.

I wonder how long it will take them to perfect their effort?

I wonder when they will step over the line and Wade hits them with a lawsuit for 521.

Meanwhile Yahoo is filling out the expression of their data in RDF preparing for building processing machines between their data repositories and metadata labs with Google and others... except... at this point; more than likely not Microsoft.

So, that's a basic assessment for tonight. Just thought it was time to tell you why I would not talk if I were Wade.

It's better to finish the trial fight and then turn to the industry and ask them to explain to the nice people out there in all those companies, partners, clients and industries why it took eight years to reach this point in web development. Or, more pointedly; Why did it take this long for this kind of thing to become public?

I think Wade intends to stick a fork in Microsoft's liver. I would. I would make sure they could do nothing but watch from the sidelines. And I wouldn't say a word until the whole sorry episode is over.

Why? Because the world deserves a good surprise. That's why.

Sleep Tight.

Love,
Portuno Rastamafoo Fuzzies

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:59 AM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 29 March 2008 2:00 PM EDT

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Dates to Remember (some will live in infamy)

Fur das flickenshnotten und shitzenflippen en das messagenborden:

March 7, 2000 VCSY…acquired Emily Solutions

March 29, 2000 arsDigita Secures $35 Million via General Atlantic and Greylock

August 3, 2000 VCSY… beta release of two of its MLE (Markup Language Executive “Emily”) Solutions Suite products: the XML Catalog Enabler Agent and the XML Database Agent.

September 6, 2000 launch of an educational and informational Web site devoted to in-depth explanations of the company's XML-based software solutions. http://www.emilysolutions.com.

December 27, 2000 iNetPurchasing.com (iNPI) officially unveiled details of its strategic alliance and joint ventures with Vertical Computer Systems (VCSY) to use, market and sell VCSY's Emily™ XML technology for the B2G and B2B markets.

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January 31, 2001 joint venture between iNet Government Services LLC (iNet) and Apollo Industries, Inc. ("Apollo") to form a separate LLC under the name "SmarteGov." Jerome Svigals, Director of MIS at Apollo and SmarteGov…generally regarded as the 'father of the magnetic stripe card.’

February 2, 2001 Barry Diller marriage to Diane von Furstenburg. Diller becomes Father-in-Law to Rober Miller via through Alexandre Prinz von Fürstenberg/Alexandra Miller 1995 marriage.

February 12, 2001 VCSY/Emily Solutions selected by IBM to be one of 40 companies now featured as innovation leaders on IBM’s new showcase Web site

February 20, 2001 Emily™ XML Enabler Agent is available for public purchase and download

March 13, 2001 Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VCSY), a  provider of Web commerce solutions, today announced that through Now Solutions, LLC, it has acquired a 60% majority interest in the Renaissance CS® Human Resources and Payroll (“HRIS/PAYROLL”) product division from Ross Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROSS). 

March 19, 2001  Microsoft releases Hailstorm

March 20, 2001 World Bank funds developmentgateway.org
(developmentgateway.org developed using arsDigita Community System software work)

September 5, 2001 acquisition of one hundred percent (100%) of Texas-based EnFacet, Inc., … "EnFacet’s innovations provide a strong synergy with our Emily enhancements"

November 1, 2001 VCSY…appointment of Stephen O. Rossetti to head the Company’s (Vertical Computers) new Government Affairs division to be headquartered in Washington D.C.

??2001 At some point during 2001 (bave, can you give the particulars re past email? - if you can dig them out and sanitize the name) iNet hosted the development of software to service a cluster computer
See comment to this post below. Thanks bave.

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January 3, 2002 -- Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: VCSY) announced today that it has acquired an option to … interest in iNetPurchasing, Inc. "iNet…current strong working relationship between VCSY and iNet … facilitated the testing and deployment of EmilyTM… throughout Texas, Maine, and Idaho"

February 4, 2002 arsDigita acquired by Red Hat Linux

February 21, 2002 …contracted for the sale and installation of its ResponseFlash™ software to enhance emergency response communications for Marion County, Indiana, including Indianapolis, the state’s largest city…MECA (Metropolitan Emergency Communications Agency} serves the City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana … wide variety of communications equipment, including more than 1,800 mobile devices, 8,000 handheld radios, 3,000 mobile radios and 5,000 pagers. MECA director Linn Piper is also chairperson of Motorola's Mobile Data Users Group (MDUG).

April 11, 2002 Microsoft pulls plug on Hailstorm

August 14, 2002 Grand River Hospital has selected NOW Solutions as their HRIS provider of choice…powerful capabilities and features of emPath™

September 18, 2002 licensing of emPath(TM) to Betty Ford Center
(Emily checks into rehab)

October 2, 2002 NOW Solutions…Northern Health Authority in Canada

November 25, 2002 NOW Solutions…upgrade and licensing of emPath™ to Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State

November 27, 2002 NOW Solutions…upgrade and licensing of emPath(TM) to a large municipal(unnamed in release) government in New Mexico

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July 6, 2003 Laughing Place #1 started on ProgrammersHeaven website -  (Webmaster for Programmersheaven is .Net MVP. Laughing Place #1 will be shut down by Programmersheaven webmaster April 25, 2007 - one week after VCSY sues Microsoft for infringement of patent 6826744).

July 18-28, 2003 AOL Time-Warner / Chinadotcom split up

September 8, 2003
Ross Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROSS), a global provider of enterprise software for manufacturers, and CDC Software Holdings Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA), an integrated enterprise solution and software company, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby CDC Software will acquire Ross Systems in a merger valued at approximately US$68.9 million.

October 31, 2003 Microsoft releases Web Controls 1.0 for .Net. 

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April 6, 2004 Google talks about WebOS. Microsoft stays quiet.
http://www.kottke.org/04/04/google-operating-system 

June 4, 2004 WHATWG open mailing list announced
"The Web Hypertext Applications Technology working group therefore intends to address the need for one coherent development environment for Web Applications."

August 27, 2004
chinadotcom corporation ("chinadotcom") (NASDAQ: CHINA; Website: www.corp.china.com), a leading integrated enterprise software and mobile applications company in China and internationally, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Ross Systems, Inc. ("Ross Systems")

August 27, 2004 Longhorn rewrite announced. Winfs out of Longhorn.

August 31, 2004 VCSY SiteFlash Patent allowance
See USPTO PAIR Site at: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
and use application number: 09/410,334
Look for allowance notice under Image File Wrapper tab.

October 2004 Laszlo Systems releases code for Laszlo Presentation Server to open-source.

November 8, 2004 WHATWG releases draft of Web Controls 1.0.

November 9, 2004 Recy43 Raging Bull VCSy posts truncated.

November 11, 2004 Ballmer throws chair during meeting with Mark Lucovsky on news he is leaving MSFT to join Google

November 18, 2004 Ballmer accuses Linux of violating >258 patents

November 30, 2004 VCSY SiteFlash Patent granted

December 1, 2004 VCSY delisted by SEC for reporting failure
Returned to listing by SEC December 6, 2005

December 13, 2004 SavaJe wins LG mobile OS gig
(SavaJe 26% owned by Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile - ring ring)

December 15, 2004 Bill Gates joins board of Berkshire Hathaway

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February 18, 2005 'AJAX' coined to describe web development centered around activity of Microsoft developed XMLhttpRequest

April 18, 2005 Adobe to acquire Macromedia

July 19, 2005 IBM and Lazlo Systems jointly propose Laszlo IDE for Eclipse

August 31, 2005 Patrick Tinley CEO of Ross Systems/CDC promoted to CEO of CDC Software

September 1, 2005 WHATWG releases draft of Web Apps 1.0

September 1, 2005 WHATWG releases draft of Web Forms 2.0

November 9, 2005 Vista was on a one sticker campaign 

December 5, 2005 Adobe completes acquisition of Macromedia

December 6, 2005 Patrick Tinley removed as CEO of CDC Software

December 6, 2005 VCSY returns from pinksheets (after delisting December 1, 2004)

December 6, 2005 CDC/Ross Systems CEO fired by CDC

December 13, 2005 IBM, SAP and Microsoft announce shut down of UDDI.
http://uddi.microsoft.com/about/FAQshutdown.htm

December 20, 2005 Microsoft is telling techs the Premium Standard is a minimum for Vista Aero.

http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/12/microsoft-releases-requirements-for.html 

These are absolute minimum requirements, and our testing here shows that to be productive in any way you will need to meet the Vista 'Premium' requirements:

-1 GHZ Processor
-1 GB of RAM
-A DirectX 9 Compatible Video card with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of ram, and 2.0 pixel shader
-40 GB of hard drive space

Even with the above specs, you will still feel Vista is sluggish. At least 2 GB of ram will make things much faster. 

January 12, 2006 UDDI publication ceased.

January ??, 2006 Vista Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs Campaign becomes a two-sticker campaign ( or Windows Vista Capable ) to enrich Intel by dropping their qualification standards for Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/capable.mspx

This is what you had to do to be a proper customer to Microsoft after the techno-bait-and-switch:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx

Question: Why would Microsoft principals want to drop the qualification standards for anybody unless there was a compelling financial reason to do so? What benefit did it bring Microsoft? And if there is no common sense financial benefit to Microsoft?

Such a move as performed by Microsoft by dropping the performance qualifications to allow Intel to market a very large number of their Vista-incapable graphics chip sets as Vista Ready is so obviously fraught with risks charter, fiduciary and judicial principles, one has to conclude that, given no financial advantage to Microsoft, one can assume the act was involuntary on Microsoft's part.

In other words, somebody at Intel has a picture of somebody in Microsoft management and a dog we all would rather not have to see.

Well, in my world, the only thing that would get you to do what Microsoft did for Intel is if somebody had and promised to show the pictures of "our" last little strategy party to the world and me and the Poodle in the throes of kavorka-fueled puppy love was the hit of the party. Not good public relations for a corporate management culture toward instilling a general appearance of "soundness" IYKWIM.

(By the way, you may notice this will mark the point in the timeline when I shoved this post over the opinion line about as far as you can see. All I know is speculation and association but you're going to have to explain the trends if you're going to contend.)

Large earthquakes start as a "letting go" of wholeness on either side of a dividing line. People call them "faults". The same image can be drawn within a corporate population as a monolithic and homoegenous rock.

A tear across the surface of least resistance will cultivate between the populace who won't cross an ethical line and those to which ethical lines are imaginary boundary. When the impending tear progresses, you see or can sometimes project what path the good guys will take and which path the bad guys think will work.

Perhaps with time there will be those who don't intend to be found helping a lie perpetrate and there are many effective ways for discussing things in this present electronic age.

So the future is all a tither.

Alot has been said and there's more to look at. These are my opinions and impressions and if you don't understand the world of SCADA, don't sit and curse me. Learn something about distributed computing in some form before you start blathering about what one company has done and another hasn't.

Why this focus on UDDI? UDDI seems like an intimidating subject or concept, but it will give you, as a novice, a foundation for perceiving just how architecture determines how data and commands in a system will be handled and why some ideas are elegant, some are close-but-no-cigar and some are dogs-stepped-on-by-ponies.

UDDI also acts as a marker to correlate other events so a general sense of the direction a technology is headed (or not headed) can be mapped out before the common man finds out (if ever).

Think through and come up with a refutation of what I am saying.

So enjoy what you will but do your own thinking and compare what you know to all that you are considering. Make sure you're honest about what you see and how you're portraying the defining area and volume immediate to that fault.

Don't find yourself having to ignore the full range of a subject and limit your understanding about a particular uncomfortable subject.

Don't be slavish to a view you are  supposed to take based on an industry view, associations, avowed principles or issues hampering the considerations.

Think through. Work toward the most likely concept of future goal, regardless of limitations. Compare that emulation with the possiblilities suggested with the real picture and decide if the delta (the amount of change necessary to achieve the goal from present state) is possible conceptually (are you able to describe a scenario that starts at the present situation and can demonstrably follow a path that logically could happen to get to desired or above goal) or is simply a wishful thought (the resources or path to obtain enabling resources doesn't exist or has no chain of resources could make up the perceived gap from here to there).

Anywho, Have fun and we'll compare notes with each other on the other side of MIX08 or better.

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March 21, 2006 Vista delayed

March 23, 2006 VCSY receives allowance for US 7,076,521
See USPTO PAIR Site at: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
and use application number: 09/882,494
Look for allowance notice under Image File Wrapper tab.

March 24, 2006 Vista rewrite rumor surfaces (Scoble denies rumor)

March 24, 2006 Microsoft virtualization to be in Apple Leopard

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May 08, 2006 Yahoo makes Panama ad center public 

May 17, 2006 Sun blesses JAVA phone with SavaJe
(SavaJe spinoff of Lucent 1999)

June 6, 2006 Raymond Niro takes on patent 6826744 case.

June 10, 2006 Robert Scoble abandons ship
(could not refute Vista rewrite rumor)

June 15, 2006 Ted Hase Leaves Microsoft

June 16, 2006 Sun's Tim Bray blog on SavaJe 

June 20, 2006 Martin Taylor leaves Microsoft with a *poof*

June 23, 2006 WinFS dead

June 26, 2006 Gates/Buffet bonding

June 29, 2006 Vic Gundotra resigns from Microsoft (currently behind Google+)

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July 11, 2006 VCSY US 7,076,521 granted
(See allowance granted March 23 2006)
 

July 18, 2006 Yahoo Panama ad center delayed

July 19, 2006 Microsoft ad center delayed
(More like hit the pause button 7/14 - 7/19 - technical?)

July 25, 2006 HP announces acquiring Mercury Interactive

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October 17, 2006 Yahoo Panama launched for internal use
(90 days after June 19, 2006)

October 17, 2006 SavaJe goes dark unexpectedly
(micro-kernel OS for JAVA - see May 17 2006) 

November 3, 2006 Ballmer invites Patent talks with Linux vendors 

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January 4, 2007 Google's Mark Lucovsky (previously Microsoft November 2004) interviewed

January 28, 2007 James Gray disappeared
[expert in distributed transactional processes]

February 1, 2007 Yahoo Panama launched for public use

February 7, 2007 VCSY sends Microsoft cease and desist on  US 6,826,744
[patent granted November 30, 2004]

February 15, 2007 Michael Gartenberg joins Microsoft from Jupiter

February 19, 2007 Interview with Google's Mark Lucovsky published

February 20, 2007 Ballmer repeats threats against Linux on patents

March 7, 2007 Michael Gartenberg leaves Microsoft after 20 days to return to Jupiter

March 14, 2007 VCSY acquires exclusive rights for StatePointPlus in Government and Healthcare in the United States and Canada

March 2007 Microsoft requires Matthew Miszewski to sign employee agreement preventing him from disclosing confidential information "during his employment and at all times thereafter..."

March 23, 2007 Apple Leopard delay rumor surfaces
[reason: virtualization] [non-Apple sources deny]

April 5, 2007 Software AG buys Webmethods for $546 million.

April 12, 2007 Apple Leopard delay to October announced
[Apple admits]

April 12, 2007 Microsoft Viridian delay  to October announced
[virtualization]

April 13, 2007 Sun buys SavaJe IP
(which went dark in unexplained circumstances last year see Oct 17 2006)

April 16, 2007 Microsoft applies for Arbitrary Object Editing patent.

April 18, 2007 VCSY sued Microsoft for infringement on US 6,826,744

April 25, 2007 ProgrammersHeaven VCSY A Laughing Place (#1) shut down by webmaster

April 27, 2007 CEO AT&T (T) announced retirement

April 27, 2007 CEO Orange announced retirement

April 29, 2007 Microsoft announced Data Entity cut from Orcas

April 30, 2007 IBM retires much legacy Websphere Global

May 10, 2007 Apple to release Leopard on original date June 

May 10, 2007 Microsoft cuts key elements from Viridian
http://vcsy.blogspot.com/2007/05/tracking-wounded.html

May 13, 2007 Ballmer accuses Linux of violating 258 patents

May 14, 2007 Estimated beginning of 60 day extension requested by Microsoft for negotiations re: VCSY v MSFT patent suit 

May 18, 2007 CDC/Ross Software CEO Yip reassigned to CEO Musser

May 24, 2007 Microsoft cancels Professional Developers Conference (PDC) scheduled for October

August 29, 2007 Interwoven confirms it no longer provides an XML-based content component management capability.

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January 16, 2008 Oracle buys BEA Systems for $8.5 billion.

February 1, 2008 Microsoft makes unsolicited $45 billion bid for Yahoo.

February 11, 2008 Microsoft buys Danger.

July 23, 2008 Kevin Johnson, head of online division, announces leaving Microsoft.

July 25, 2008: Markman Hearing scheduled for this day in VCSY v MSFT for infringement of 6826744 did not occur because Microsoft settled with VCSY in a confidential settlement the day before the hearing.

July 25, 2008 - Microsoft announces largest stock buyback in company history.

September 30, 2008 Microsoft establishes first debt financing in company history for $6,000,000,000.

October 16, 2008 Microsoft Arbitrary Object Editing patent application published. See April 16, 2007 application date.

October 27, 2008 - Microsoft introduces Azure and "joins the cloud party".

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January 12, 2009 - Interwoven notified of infringement of patent 6826744 by TeamSite 2006 product. See lawsuit circa November 15, 2010.

January 12, 2009 - Palm WebOS Synergy demonstrated.

January 22, 2009 - Interwoven agrees to be acquired by Autonomy.

March 5, 2009 - VCSY meets with Interwoven in San Jose, California. VCSY alleges Interwoven intentionally concealed its infringement of the 744 patent. See lawsuit circa November 15, 2010.

October 22, 2009 - Microsoft introduces Windows 7 to replace ill-fated Vista.

November 19, 2009 - Google releases long awaited Chrome OS web operating system.

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January 18, 2010 Michael Miszewski appointed Senior VP Global Public Sector at Salesforce.

January 27, 2010 Microsoft blocks Miszewski move to Salesforce.

March 25, 2010 VCSY announces allowance of 7716629 continuance to 6826744.

April 14, 2010 - VCSY announces:
"In July 2008, we settled an infringement claim we had initiated in federal court against Microsoft. We are waiting for the issuance of the Continuation Patent for U.S. Patent No. 6,826,744 (which SiteFlash™ is based upon) before we engage with new licensees because we believe the Continuation Patent provides better protection for this intellectual property asset."

April 28, 2010 HP buys Palm

May 11, 2010 - VCSY granted patent  7716629 - a continuance of patent 6826744 "System and Method for Generating Web Sites in an Arbitrary Object Framework."

June 14, 2010 - VCSY institutes "poison pill" agreement.

June 14, 2010 - Microsoft enters into $1,250,000,000 indenture.

June 30, 2010 Microsoft kills Kin aka the Pink Danger.

August 12, 2010 - Interwoven notified of infringement of patent 6826744 by TeamSite 2006 product. Lawsuit alleges "Interwoven agains mislead Vertical into believing that it would attempt to resolve any patent infringement claim by Vertical by negotiating in good faith, but it obtained an extension of time under the pretext of studying the issues presented by Vertical to prepare a lawsuit against Vertical." See lawsuit circa November 15, 2010.

October 11, 2010 - Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7.

October 14, 2010 - Interwoven sues VCSY in an effort to have parts of 6826744 and 7716629 ruled invalid

October 24, 2010 - Ray Ozzie quits as "cloud computing guru" for Microsoft.

November 11, 2010 - Additional child application 12/777,885 to 7716629 made public by USPT.

November 12, 2010 - Silverlight gets its own developer event.

November 15, 2010 VCSY sues Interwoven, LG and Samsung for infringing against patents 6826744 and 7716629.

November 15, 2010 - Google Chrome OS web operating system delayed without explanation.

November 22, 2010 - Samsung focusing on Windows 7 instead of Android?

November 22, 2010 - Novell sells to Attachmate.

December 02, 2010 - Barry Diller resigns as IAC CEO. 

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June 12, 2011 Entered for the historical record.

July 1, 2011 Microsoft/Apple group buys Nortel patents.

July 29, 2011 Google buys IBM patents.

August 15, 2011 Google buys Motorola Mobility.

August 18, 2011 HP offers to buy Autonomy.

Circa June 2012 VCSY responds to USPTO non-final rejection. 

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 6:06 PM EST

Updated: Thursday, 14 June 2012 12:07 PM EDT

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For the record (and just so things don't go... uhhhh... "missing", you know? Things do seem to have a habit of going ... uhhhh... "missing" on message boards.):

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_M/threadview?m=tm&bn=12004&tid=1305637&mid=1305637&tof=3&frt=1
coolness, innovation....from microsoft?

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_M/threadview?m=tm&bn=12004&tid=1305449&mid=1305449&tof=2&frt=1
Let's put it all out in front where the folks can see it, shall we?

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_M/threadview?m=tm&bn=12004&tid=1305662&mid=1305673&tof=1&frt=1
Re: And the pissing will go on...and on...

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 3:36 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 20 October 2007 3:37 PM EDT

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If Microsoft is counting on exhibit_for_msft_response.pdf to prove "prior art", Microsoft shareholders should start getting shelac and brushes to use to decoupage their Microsoft shares once they lose the VCSY patent lawsuit.

UDATE

And IF I am allowed by the poorly acting site software I will endeavour to prove my contentions.

As it is, just logging in to this blog is a chore as the software is hanging up and not allowing free movement.

UPDATE

Apparently this blog site is no longer on-line. I shall retire to Laughing Place #3 and tell the story there that I have been denied the opportunity to tell here.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 4:14 PM EDT

Updated: Wednesday, 25 July 2007 6:10 PM EDT

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