What Happened to Netcaster? 6
cotcomsol asks: "I was surfing around a few days ago and ran across a bunch of old hype
for Communicator 4, specifically the Netcaster component. I played with it a bit when it was in beta, and haven't heard anything since. Anyone know why they dropped it? "
Marimba (Score:1)
Castanet looked very promising for a time, but for some reason got burried and became an extremely overpriced technology. It would have been great if Marimba didn't want an arm and a leg and a first born child and your entire estate and ...
I suspect netcaster disappearing may have had something to do with Castanet going south as well. But then netcaster to me seemed very buggy
A victim of the cold war (Score:2)
Netscape fell for it and got distracted from maintaining the strengths that IE lagged behind on.
Ever notice that "Channels" are nary in sight in IE5? Unless you're an ESPN-addicted salesman, it's not likely you've done anything with either of these features except to find out how to end their annoying, bandwidth- sucking ways.
What happenened to Netcaster? It served it's purpose just like the carrot on the stick.
Re:Marimba (Score:1)
I do Tech Support to one of the larges tax preparers in the country, and for the 2000 tax year we are using castanet to send sales information to world headquarters. I'm very foggy on the details, becuase the company doesn't like to let their lowly Tech support staff no more about the software then they absolutely need to.
but to sum up that rambling, Castanet is still alive...if barely
Re:Marimba (Score:1)
When Castanet first came out, I could forsee it being used in a similar vain as the WWW, if not anywhere as extensively, but at least more so than it is now.
It still is a dream of mine, I'd love to see an open source java version of Castanet...
(still dreaming...)
Re:Marimba (Score:1)
a year and a half ago. It didn't take much work.
Nobody ever used it, wanted it, or even asked about it. Sure looks like a dead end to me,