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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:50:35 +0000
From:      Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
To:        Joe Mays <jfmays@launchpad.win.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Distributed Webservers
Message-ID:  <34C0A91B.167EB0E7@cablenet.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980115173926.5384F-100000@millennium.net> <34BFD329.B17136C2@launchpad.win.net>

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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/



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