Other "Zois" Sites

Mindful of the way the modern World Wide Web works it occurred to us that folk may guess the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) based on the name of the company or organization that they wish to contact. If the word "zois" is in that guess then trying to get HTML from www.zois.com would seem a fair bet. Feedback and the odd search has made us realise that the word "zois" is not quite as unique as we may have originally thought and as we own/maintain the zois.com domain we thought we should add links to these other "zois" sites.

The sites listed are serving HTML in their own right. There are other "zois" DNS entries we know of which are simply registrations (sometimes for sale) or Mail Exchange records.

Except for ZOIS Ltd., the On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) consultancy, none of these organizations has anything to do with us (or us with them).

As for us, see Mr. OLTP's answers (for the inevitable question about ZOIS's name).

"Zois" Domains

zois.com

ZOIS Limited. A small company specialising in OLTP consultancy. The domain www.zois.com points to www.zois.co.uk.

zois.org

Paved Ziga Zois Foundation. A humanitarian site dedicated to Baron Ziga Zois (1747-1819), noted Slovenian scholar, "promoting quality in education, schooling and health care" (in Slovene).

zois.co.uk

ZOIS Limited. OLTP consultancy. This Web Site is served from www.zois.co.uk, start at the Site Home Page or browse the Contents. See also the following sub-domains:

• home -- ZOIS's ad-hoc demonstration site. This is the site hosting The Unofficial National Jobcentre Plus Mirror, a cache of the UK's government-sponsored job vacancy postings.
• ash -- ZOIS's family and friends web-site.

zois.cz

Zavádení Opravy Inovace Servis (Z.O.I.S.). PC sales, service and Internet Web hosting (in Czech).

zois.gr

Zois Efstathiou SA. Greek ships' chandlers (mostly in Greek).

zois.it

Zois Elettronica S.n.c. Burglar, fire and security electronics (in Italian).

zois.com.au

Zoi's Embroidery. Personalised, embroidered apparel.

Not Quite "Zois" Domains

2015.com

2015 Inc., a computer games company.

zios.com (zios.org and zios.net)

Zio's, an Italian restaurant chain in the South Western USA.

drzois.de

Dr. med. G. Zois. Medical General Practice in Munich, Germany (mostly in German).

There is no doubt that this list is not exhaustive. If you have a new one for us please send Feedback (as in Mail Mr. OLTP or use our Comment Form).

~Z~

Navigation

This is some navigation, it should appear at the side if the page is wide, and at the bottom if it is not.

Search

Seek enlightenment and wisdom: 

Example: "tuxedo".

Highlights

This site is mainly about On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP). We've some other papers on this:

• Something for non-cognoscente.
• The executive summary.
• OLTP and big computers.
• OLTP and reliability.
• What Transactions are about.
• The need for scaling.
• Tuxedo.
• CICS.

Also of Interest

Juicy morsels from the rest of the site:

• Some site news; it's a sort of infrequently updated journal for the author too.
• Rather specific Technical Notes, the author can still bore people in the Historic Third-person.
• Of the little hacks that have been done recently, the Unofficial Jobcentre Plus Mirror seems to have gained the most traction.
• Other ephemeral, eclectic stuff. Mostly photographs.
• A series of Gormless Anecdotes, basically recycled e-mails.

About the Author

His name is Martin Sullivan. He's a fifty-something some-time computer programmer living in the quaintly named town of Cockermouth in north-west England.

The Company

ZOIS Limited is basically a vehicle for Martin and his OLTP work, he owns it. You can find out more about it elsewhere on the main site.

Pro-Bono Plug

Martin is currently on a health sabbatical, but is interested in the odd bit of pro-bono work by the way of therapeutic recovery. So, if you've anything that he can tackle on a non-commercial basis from his base in Cockermouth please let him know. Unsurprisingly, he's particularly interest in biology, again, and the application of computing to it.