The principal purpose of this page is to amplify our
SunWorld Online
article
on Scriptics,
at the time of its launch, and the O'ReillyNetwork
piece,
on the occasion of its renaming. Of related interest:
a review
of TclPro
Bryan Oakley and I wrote,
summaries
of the approximately-annual Tcl Conferences, and
one of my attempts to understand
Ajuba
as a business.
The one line that elicited the most reaction from readers
was our quote of the Scriptics Web page (since changed)
which described the company as the first devoted to
scripting. This characterization neglects
- Allegiant,
manufacturer of SuperCard,
- CPU,
- Main Event Software,
which specializes in AppleScript
- MetaCard,
purveyor of the eponymous HyperCard descendant
- PythonWare,
or Secret Labs AB,
- Userland Frontier,
- Net
Mgmt Solutions, Inc. which specializes
in network management solutions based on Tcl
- Nombas, vendor
of ScriptEase
- "Python
Professional Services
provides world-class service and support for
the Python programming environment"
Amy Oringel profiled
John.
In May 1999, John told me,
our two main messages are
(a) that Tcl is uniquely great for integration applications and
(b) we think that successful open source projects like Tcl are
symbiotic with commercial ventures like Scriptics that provide
additional tools, services, and extensions to meet the needsof
mainstream commercial users.
A 1999 Computerworld
article
has interesting background information on incoming Scriptics CEO
Tom Thomas.
[Sometime I intend to interview
John
Graham-Cumming.]
Cameron
Laird's personal notes on Scriptics
Corporation/claird@phaseit.net