Based on Windows NT, the software runs on any multimedia PC with a Web browser and Internet connection. If you're involved in your company's year 2000 planning, you probably already know the exact number of days until New Year's Eve 1999 and the potentially disastrous four-digit rollover. Red Sky Interactive wants to make your calculations even more precise. The San Francisco-based interactive multimedia company has developed the Red Sky Millennium Clock, a freeware Java application that queries an atomic clock to provide the correct current time and a Y2K countdown. The Millennium Clock can also synchronize the user's system clocks to the atomic timekeeper and create a three-dimensional picture of the Earth's rotation in the user's time zone.
Many hands make light work, the old saying goes.
But many hands building a big Web site can make a big, big mess. A file system lookup on a directory with 40,000 files, for example, takes only a matter of seconds, even when accessed by 100 simultaneous users, says Rich Petersen, manager of Interwoven's customer marketing group.