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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:16:57 -0700
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Andrew Davison wrote:
] > They even avoid their own products. For a long time, if you
] > telnetted to www.microsoft.com, you got a BSDI prompt. :-)
] > I think they may still be using BSDI, but now they refuse
] > telnet connections to avoid further embarassment. heh
]
] So you're saying they've ported their Internet Information Server to
] Unix? Nice feat! Now that they've done the MFC/OLE hard stuff then
] presumably porting Internet Explorer to Unix will be a snap. Should
] we expect an announcement any day now? I don't think so.
No, he's saying they were running BSDI boxes with a WWW server
that ran on BSDI. It was actually CERN, if I rememebr correctly.
Note: www.microsoft.com, not www.msn.com
********* ***
The current msn stuff all runs on IIS on NT for "active content"
(which is apparently designed to make it so that a web crawler
can't index your site, since a human and a web crawler might not
access the same "active content").
For what it's worth (which is probably not much, considering your
obvious bias), in http://www.microsoft.com/ie/press/response.htm
Microsoft states:
[ ... ]
However, we do realize that a Unix version of
Internet Explorer is important and we are working
to deliver (and have announced) a best of breed
version of Internet Explorer for Unix
[ ... ]
Further, Microsft plans to support ActiveX and COM technology on
UNIX (in association with Digital Equipment Corp. and Software
AG): http://www.microsoft.com/oledev/olemkt/oledcom/press.txt
[ ... ]
Software AG and Digital Equipment Corp. are porting
DCOM to other operating systems, including multiple
implementations of UNIX(R).
[ ... ]
Try checking your facts first, next time. Good Microsoft
mouthpieces don't contradict Microsoft press releases.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.