OpenCola RIP?
Posted on July 24, 2003
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Bumming around the web at 3am I came across this tidbit from a chat session between Randy Morin of iBLOGthere4iM and Ken McLeod:
randymorin: Have you heard of Opencola?
kenmacleod: just a reference
randymorin: They died last week.
randymorin: Just a sad note.
randymorin: They had a good concept of the Semantic Web, but ran out of money before any sales.
Trying to get to opencola.com times out so maybe it’s true?
That would sadden me. I thoroughly enjoyed working for OpenCola, I learned a hell of a lot in an incredibly short time (everything I know about writing distributed applications and xml-as-messsage-transport began from my work at OpenCola) and I had the pleasure of working with some of the smartest, weirdest people I’ve ever worked with there. While the mass layoff was unpleasant and OpenCola v2.0 became a company none of the original employees could relate to at all, I was still hoping they’d manage to pull it off and make a go of the software.
If they’re dead, it’s a shame.
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New link to conversation w/ Ken
http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20030721211712