This is "flower 0.5"

 Copyright (C) 2007 Thomas Lord
 Licensed under the Open Software License version 3.0
 Patents Pending
 
 The "Open Software License version 3.0" refers to the license that
 should be included with this software as a file named
 "LICENSE-FOR-SOURCE-CODE" but that is in any event the license
 recognized by that name by the Open Source Initiative
 (opensource.org).


* Introduction

  "Flower" is:

	~ the core of a new operating system for the web
        ~ a framework for developing web applications
        ~ a generic server that can be configured over the wire
          to behave as any specialized server
        ~ an XQuery-based analytics tool for XML data-sets.
        ~ a programming language for "live" web content
        ~ a new way to think, in a unified way, about messaging,
          file systems, databases, and distributed programming
        ~ an embodiment of some patent pending technologies
        ~ an early-stage project, useful but still quite new
        ~ a single-file, 2,000 line C++ program, plus
          a single 1,000 line XSLT program, plus a 250
          line CSS program.


* Prerequisites

  In order to compile flower, you will need several other 
  (widely available) software libraries.   See the 
  "HOW-TO-COMPILE" file for more information.



* Author Contact Information

  Please direct questions and correspondence to
  Thomas Lord, lord@emf.net.