This pet craves for freedom for a while. To celebrate the day and millenium's end, I let it go.

december 23rd 2000
Jörg F. Wittenberger

Objective reality is the reality, which is outside and independant of any individual consciousness.

A nice definition, isn't it? It rules that all an individual can have is a perception or projection of the reality.

That's exactly the way Askemos deals with information. Askemos extends the notion of reliability from the processing equipment to both the equipment and it's owner (or any malicious operator who might have taken it over). This allows to implement relevant business processes spaning areas of accountability.

Conceptually the Askemos server is an autonomous, distributed operating system on top of peer to peer networks which significantly raises the level of abstraction in comparison with today's operating systems.

The current implementation is an application server as much as emacs is a text editor. Like emacs it is a) a LISP programming environment (actually not LISP but DSSSL, a pure functional subset of Scheme, which is a LISP dialect and it's successor XSLT) b) acts like an operating system c) integrates with everthing and d) is available under a free license. An alternative understanding is that of a XML object database with stored procedures in XSLT.

Askemos has some outstanding features: a virtual machine at document level, an access control system modelled after general key systems without a super user to hack, has persistant processes and it works fully ansynchronous implicitly parallel computing as much as possible.