From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 17 04:54:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA26232 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from axe.cablenet.net (axe.cablenet.net [194.154.36.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA26228 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damian@axe.cablenet.net) Received: from axe (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by axe.cablenet.net (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA00734; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:50:36 GMT Message-ID: <34C0A91B.167EB0E7@cablenet.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:50:35 +0000 From: Damian Hamill Organization: CableNet Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Mays CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distributed Webservers References: <34BFD329.B17136C2@launchpad.win.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Text: (probability 0) Stage Checktimes: stage1 0.57503 secs, stage2 0.13125 secs, stage3 0.28 secs, Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Mays wrote: > > 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. Available in apache as PHP for no charge with source code. You can define functions and extend as you wish. > MSSQL integration. Apache->PHp->Mysql all free. AND Delhpi->ODBC->Mysql is even sexier. >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. I had a customer that wanted to go NT until I showed then the above solutions. They now have a site based on these with a Delphi admin app. vey cool!! regards damian -- * Damian Hamill M.D. damian@cablenet.net * CableNet & The Landscape Channel * http://www.cablenet.net/ http://www.landscapetv.com/