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From: fred@vespa.byu.edu (Fred Clift)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Heh...
Date: 24 Aug 1995 23:52:56 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
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Message-ID: <FRED.95Aug24175256@vespa.byu.edu>
References: <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
<MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
Reply-To: cliftf@byu.edu
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In-reply-to: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com's message of 25 Aug 1995 06:58:22 GMT
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael L VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> writes:
In article <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
In article <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:
Hey kids, check this out. Micro$oft recently put up a bunch of
web servers dedicated to Win95 things. They have names like
www.windows.microsoft.com, download.windows.microsoft.com, etc.
There's apparently a bunch of them set up in a round-robin DNS
rotation. Curiously, telnetting to them reveals this:
[...]
BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 (wl8.windows.microsoft.com) (ttyp1)
[...]
BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 (wl9.windows.microsoft.com) (ttyp1)
[...]
Kinda makes you think, don't it.
Michael> Your point being? If they're going to run a Unix server,
Michael> they have to run some type of Unix on it, correct? BSDI
Michael> is a popular choice because it's excellent, and it's
Michael> commercially supported.
Michael> And, Unix is still the best platform of choice for a
Michael> really heavy- duty Internet Web server.
Probably true, but, see below
Michael> It really doesn't seem all that odd to me.
<various things including long car analogy deleted>
The point being that microshaft markets NT as the _server_ OS of
choice - ie - better than unix. They even have a web server that runs
under NT. I think that it shows that they know that their product
just isn't as good as at least one other available...
--> fred
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Fred Clift - cliftf@byu.edu Assistant Systems Manager CAEDM - BYU
"Remember, if women don't find you handsom, at least they should
find you handy." -- Red Green