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Subject: NeoWebScript to be released as Open Source - DN [1]

eugene@inferno.ops.neosoft.com (Eugene Lee) - 14 Jun 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Houston, Texas, June 11, 1999

 http://www.neowebscript.org/

 NeoSoft Inc. today announced the release of its World Wide Web server software,
 NeoWebScript, under an open source license.  NeoWebScript is a computer
 program that enables servers to distribute dynamic information on the
 World Wide Web.  The software, an add-in extension to the Apache webserver,
 uses the Tool Command Language (TCL) to allow users to simply and powerfully
 add dynamic content to their web pages.  This software gives both
 programmers and non-programmers the ability to add databases, on-the-fly
 dynamically generated images, and complicated form processing to their
 web content.  The NeoWebScript code is included directly into webpages,
 ensuring that adding these features is easily done within 3rd party
 web page editors.

 The new open source license announced today will give developers all over
 the world the ability to update and extend NeoWebScript.  Barbara Pearce,
 Manager of Research and Development at NeoSoft, Inc., said that,
 "After making NeoWebScript source code freely available for the last
 several years, we want to complete the process by making it officially
 open source."  Open source software has come into national media attention
 recently with the wildly sucessful Apache and Linux software packages.
 Open source software is not tightly controlled by a company, and many
 different programmers can use the Internet to collaborate on updates
 and bug fixes.  Barbara continued by saying, "We are extremely excited
 about the possibilities for development that this step can provide to
 an application we have worked with closely, which we feel is an exciting
 and creative tool that we want to offer to the whole Internet community."

 NeoSoft, Inc. is an Internet service provider based in Houston, Texas.  It
 provides Internet access to Houston and New Orleans, in addition to developing
 software applications.  NeoSoft, Inc. was formed in 1992.

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 Eugene Lee
 eugene@neowebscript.org