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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!news.enterprise.net!starship From: apc@enterprise.net (Adrian Cooper) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Apache vs Netscape Commerce Server Date: Sat, 25 May 96 23:26:54 GMT Organization: Enterprise PLC - Internet Services Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4o858m$22f@news.enterprise.net> References: <4ni00j$9jb@news2.cais.com> <4o2p59$p7v@news.enterprise.net> <4o4nho$j58@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starship.enterprise.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4o4nho$j58@stout.entertain.com>, dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) wrote: > >If it is true that Netscape is not continuing development of BSDI >Netscape servers, then they have already lost to Microsoft. The one >thing that saves them in this market place is multi-platform support. > >Microsoft will never support another operating system. > >(I actually think that Netscape consistently produces far superior >software to Microsoft, but most of the computing world is too stupid to >understand this and so they spend their green votes on MicroBorg.) Lest we forget the well known phenomena of a few months back - M$ actually appeared to use BSDI instead of Windows NT as their O/S of choice for their large network of Windows 95 marketing and support Web servers. The reasons for this are unknown (unless it was for the round-robin DNS that they were/are also using), but I think that we can safely assume that it was/is not a statement of intent to develop for BSDI in the future. It looks as if Windows NT has hijacked the Intel platform at the expense of BSDI :-( Not sure what the solution is as market forces are clearly the pre-determining factors here - but unless we fight the BSDI cause then running large commercial Web servers in future means either Windows NT - not a serious option - or buying a Sparc or an Indy - again not a serious option. If Netscape are no longer interested in developing for BSDI, maybe they should license or sub-contract the BSDI platform versions of their products over to an organisation that is committed to BSDI development. After all - BSDI is known to be the most powerful and efficient Web server platform of all. -- Adrian. ___________________________________ Adrian Cooper | apc@enterprise.net Enterprise PLC | http://www.enterprise.net Leading Internet Services in the British Isles.