Re: Fwd: NT Workstation 4.0: Bad News for Web Servers

Christopher X. Candreva (chris@westnet.com)
Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:11:49 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Thom Forbes wrote:

> >Now, the implications: this development will choke off one of the most
> >important new directions for the Web: its return to its roots as a
> >groupware information sharing system for the desktop. Like email and

> >This move by Microsoft will hurt the efforts of Web developers,
> >Intranet developers, and Internet service providers, a great many of

Maybe.

Maybe O'Riely should just port WebSite to other operating systems. OS/2
Warp is under $200 bucks. FOr $99, a company called Caldera makea a
commercial versin of Linux, with a GUI, support, and a port of
WordPerfect.

> >Chief WebSite developer Bob Denny says: "When I first started
> >developing Web servers in 1994, nearly all Web serving was done on the
> >Unix platform. Considering that companies such as O'Reilly &
> >Associates, Netscape, and a half dozen more, pushed hard in the fight
> >to legitimize NT vs. Unix as a Web server platform over the last 18
> >months, Microsoft's actions are pretty extreme."

Play with the Devil, and you're going to get burned !

-Chris

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