[cap-talk] Capability-based Projects - theory vs. practice

[Mark Miller]

On 8/11/07, John Carlson <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > ...did realize and utilize the ocap nature of FCP. But I'm not sure. I
> > don't remember the name of the company.
>
> Ubiq.
>
> Was it Ubique?  I seem to remember some IM software written by
> Ubique...something like if you visited
> the same website as someone else, you could see the other person's picture.

Yes. With your spelling, a bit of web searching reveals

>From <http://www.wtn.net/2004/bio19.html>:

In 1993, Shapiro took leave of absence from his tenured position at
Weizmann to found Ubique Ltd., an Israeli Internet software pioneer.
Building on Concurrent Prolog, Ubique developed "Virtual Places", a
precursor to today's broadly-used Instant Messaging systems. Ubique
was sold to America Online in 1995, and following a management buy out
in 1997 was sold again to IBM in 1998, where it continues to develop
SameTime, IBM's leading Instant Messaging product based on Ubique's
technology.

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    Cheers,
    --MarkM