From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 18 12:42:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07023 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kerouac.deepwell.com (deepwell.com [209.63.174.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07015 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@deepwell.com) Received: (qmail 7634 invoked from network); 18 Jan 1999 21:12:23 -0000 Received: from terry.dcomm.net (HELO terry) (209.63.174.33) by deepwell.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 1999 21:12:23 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990118123806.009214e0@mail1.dcomm.net> X-Sender: freebsd@mail.deepwell.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:39:47 -0800 To: "Sumbry][" From: Deepwell Internet Subject: Re: FrontPage questions Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199901181332.IAA26197@bilver.magicnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From time to time we get customers who want to use some Microsoft SQL or access database in a Frontpage Web. Is there ANY way of dealing with this under the Unix FPE, or do I just have to turn all of those customers elsewhere. At 11:17 AM 1/18/99 -0800, you wrote: >> Doesn't it really depend on how many customers, real or pontential, >> want this. If it's only a few then is it worth allocating your >> resources to cover them, or point the customer to someone else. >> >> Not every customer is worth having. However once you commit to >> them you have to treat them as above, otherwise they go elsewhere >> and tell people how bad you are. > >Well, unfortunately, if you are web hosting company, then a >*large* percentage of your customers are going to want Microsoft Frontpage >Extensions support. There's no way that you can web host in this day, and >not have FP extensions support. > >This isn't going to get any better either. W/the impending release of >Office 2000, suddenly you going to convert every Microsoft Office user who >isn't already using Frontpage into a Frontpage user (Frontpage 2000 will be >bundled w/Office 2000). And w/practically anyone who has a computer using >Office, well... Frontpage isn't going to go away. > > >----- >Sumbry][ | Affinity Hosting | http://affinity.net | sumbry@affinity.net >"Run, run, fast as ya can, ya can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man." > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message