Re: Re: [seul-edu] SIF's Zone Integration Server(

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jim Troutman wrote:
 

> The ZIS is where all of the real work is done to integrate the data
> between the various programs.  It is basically a message queing server to
> pass XML "messages" from app to another (doesn't have to be real time --
> good old batch processing!).  It has rulesets that it checks for rules on
> which programs can access each others data tables, and what sort of access
> (RW, read only, etc.).
> 
So it's roughly similar to Casbah <http://casbah.org>, then.  I wonder if
Casbah can eventually fill this function.

> yes -- it seems to me that this could be a major strategic asset for
> Microsoft if they were the only ones with a ZIS server in a year or two
> when this stuff really gets going in the field.  We can't allow that.
> 
And looking at their license for ZIS, it looks remarkably open source.  So much
so that I've just submitted a story suggestion about it to LinuxToday,
Slashdot, and LWN.  Let's see what happens when more of the Linux community notices
this.

> <digging around on websites>
> wow, MS actually has the code for their ZIS available.  Here is what they
> say about it:
> 
I just downloaded it.  Unfortunately, running "file on it says, "zis-v1.exe: MS
Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 GUI executable"  Maybe I'll try to ftp it to a
Windows box at work and take a look at it.

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