Gentlemen, a call to arms!

[ben@bpfh.net]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:40:43AM -0700, ben at bpfh.net wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:25:37PM -0400, jesse wrote:
>> >
>> >Anybody gotten a nice toolkit for doing Comet-ish stuff up and going?
>> 
>> Yes, thanks. Is it Open Source? No, sadly, not, and as it's work stuff I don't really
>> feel I can produce an out-of-hours skunkworks version with a clear conscience.
>
>Is it close to core business and therefore not something that work would
>consider open-sourcing?

Yes. 

We are working with a vendor who has pledged to release a closed-source "Community
Edition" however, which will be integrated with a leading OS AJAX toolkit - this 
will if nothing else give a decent black-box example of how to do it properly,
which the OSS community could then look to reverse-engineer.

There's a limited amount more I can say about this now, and I don't think I'm at 
liberty to name the vendor or toolkit yet.

Ben