In her current forum, Maggie Biggs postulates that middleware will be the area where Linux will grow most in the near future. She asks: "Has anyone here implemented Lotus Domino on Linux? Or, what about using Zope or Enhydra for application serving? What other Linux-based middleware products have you investigated?" If you care about your Linux and your Zope, go and tell her what kind of middleware (*) apps you're using it for. http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?26 * It's a goofy term much loved by marketdroids and journalists and CORBA people. It denotes server apps that sit in a "middle tier" of an n-tiered distributed system (such as a web-based database front-end, which is positioned between the client and the database server). Middleware is an euphemism for what programmers sometimes call "glue" or "this little Perl/Python script I chucked up last night" or, these days, "this nifty bunch of Z Classes that drive our internal document management system". -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "What the hell, he thought, you're only young once, and threw himself out of the window. That would at least keep the element of surprise on his side." --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_