Build cool web apps. Fast. Free. Easy.

That's a the marketing phrase for the new OpenLaszlo release out today. Hey, that's not a bad tag line, marketing-wise. And let me claim by Dilbertian moment in the sun by boasting that I came up with it!

Really truly, if you care about where web technology is going, you should check out the OpenLaszlo 3.0 release. This is going to be big.

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I could just slap Steve Jobs. He really had a good thing going with me, until today.

All the people I hang out with are pretty avidly anti-Microsoft, on technical, business, and moral grounds. I work at a University where I and everyone else use Macs. My wife was a Mac pioneer from way back, has a business that may soon be buying educational computers by the truckload, and is a perfect candidate for the "Switch' ads. I like Pixar movies, and I'm tickled that ol' Steve's iTunes was able to show those RIAA guys what morons they've been.

Well, it that's all changed.
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