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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.enterprise.net!starship From: apc@enterprise.net (Adrian Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Heh... Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 22:19:38 GMT Organization: Enterprise PLC Lines: 42 Message-ID: <422sd2$qkt@news.enterprise.net> References: <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <DDvnz9.ApM@dexter.mi.org> <MICHAELV.95Aug26221014@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starship.enterprise.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5521 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:774 In article <MICHAELV.95Aug26221014@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: >In article <DDvnz9.ApM@dexter.mi.org> jsr@dexter.mi.org (Jay S. Rouman) writes: > > In article <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, > Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: > > >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 > > >Your point being? If they're going to run a Unix server, they have to > >run some type of Unix on it, correct? BSDI is a popular choice > > I think Bill's amusement (and mine) derives from the fact that > Microsoft has been touting NT as the server OS to end all. Nobody > doubts that Microsoft runs all kinds of computers and OS's internally, > but this is exactly the kind of application for which NT is supposed > to be so great. > >Yeah, but NT is only half of it. In addition, you have to have an >industrial strength web server to run on it. And, to my knowledge, >Microsoft doesn't have one of those, yet. Don't you believe it! The web servers that M$ are running are unlike any you will find elsewhere, and appears to utilise some distinctly very non-standard html extensions as well. They also have this highly mysterious Web project, of which these servers could well be the first example code named "Blackbird". The point is though, if this is the situation, which I believe it is, - which O/S have M$ selected and endorsed over and above their own? Yes - BSDI 2.0! Excellent choice Bill <g>. ___________________________________ Adrian Cooper | apc@enterprise.net Enterprise PLC | http://www.enterprise.net Leading Internet Services in the British Isles.