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Believing in what you sell...

At American Microsystems we use cl-http in several ways.  It is a gui
for our internal cad software programs (over 500 of them).  We are not
known to outside sources because this is a intranet.  We are grateful
to MIT and John Mallery for cl-http and their support.
Simon Brooke writes:
 > OK, so this is deliberately provocative. A challenge, in fact. I went
 > over this evening to 
 > 
 > http://www.netcraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/Survey/whats
 > 
 > to find out what web-servers the major LISP vendors actually run
 > themselves. 
 > 
 > Answers?
 > 
 > www.harlequin.com is running Netscape-Commerce/1.12
 > www.franz.com is running Apache/1.1.1
 > www.expertelligence.com is running WebBase 4.10 build 54 BETA. 
 > 	(which isn't surprising because WebBase is one of their products)
 > www.digitool.com is running NCSA/1.3. 
 > 
 > Netcraft found cl-http running on just 27 of 739688 web sites, a tiny
 > proportion. Of these, 11 were in .com domains:
 > 
 >  www2.banned-books.com 
 >  www2.commodity-exchange.com 
 >  www2.consumers-report.com 
 >  www2.education-resources.com 
 >  www2.freethought.com 
 >  interaction.in-progress.com 
 >  www2.jordan-maxwell.com 
 >  www.se1.com 
 >  www2.synergy-enterprises.com 
 >  www2.truth-seeker.com 
 >  www2.truthseeker.com 
 > 
 > On investigation, though, I found that these were all actually the same
 > server (Synergy Enterprises, www.se1.com, 204.216.182.1, apparently a
 > PowerMac), with the exception of http://interaction.in-progress.com/.
 > Or, to put it differently, it appears that in the whole world, only two
 > organisations are prepared to bet their Web-sites on cl-http... both,
 > incidentally on Macintosh CL.
 > 
 > This worries the *hell* out of me. I am evaluating cl-http on UN*X,
 > currently with Franz Allegro 4.3. I'm frankly having some difficulty
 > getting it going (but mainly, I think, because I find the documentation
 > extremely opaque). But if I'm the only person in the world running a
 > commercial cl-http on UN*X? I don't mind swimming against the tide, but
 > that's ridiculous!
 > 
 > OK, guys, does **none** of you believe in the technology you're selling?
 > Or do you just think that cl-http is a poor Web server? Or do you find
 > it too hard to configure and set up? *If* I manage it, I'm going to
 > write some 'for dummies' documentation, because I find the existing
 > documentation has too high an assumed knowledge threshold for me to even
 > begin to understand it (hell, I've only got twelve years of professional
 > LISP and three years of professional Web service).
 > 
 > -- 
 > simon@intelligent.co.uk (Simon Brooke)
 > http://www.intelligent.co.uk/~simon
 > 
 > 		[ This mind intentionally left blank ]
 > 

========================================
Ron L. Sydney
American Microsystems, Inc.
18711 Tiffeni Dr., Suite A
P.O.Box 967
Twain Harte, CA 95383
Voice: (209)586-7422 xt 16
Fax:   (209)586-3826
Email: rls@cadr.amis.com
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