From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 16 14:17:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01093 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01077 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 14:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfmays@launchpad.win.net) Received: from launchpad.win.net (notebook01.win.net [204.215.209.215]) by ns1.win.net (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA07957; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:38:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <34BFD329.B17136C2@launchpad.win.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:37:45 -0500 From: Joe Mays X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lists CC: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distributed Webservers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lists wrote: > > I don't understand why a customer would need NT unless they needed > Frontpage extensions, which 1. are crap and 2. are available on > UN*X anyway! > > Any other reasons? ASP. Access database integration. MSSQL integration. I personally have no desire for NT, but these are the reasons are customers want to be able to run things off of NT, often in conjunction with a site under BSD, and I have no desire to tell them to get lost just because I don't care for NT myself.