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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs Win NT and netscape commerce server
Date: 17 Dec 1995 00:22:25 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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900RR (900RR) wrote:
]
] jwebster@fox.nstn.ca (jwebster) wrote:
] 
] >I have a question.  I am setting up a commernce server and will most
] >likly be useing the netscape commernce server.  A friend of mine 
] >recommended going with BSDI Unix and another friend recommended Win NT.
] 
] both recommendations are "right" for today.
] 
] However, the decision you make should be based on the following:

Microsoft internally used BSDI for their Windows95 product
rollout web servers.

You can't telnet to them anymore and get a BSDI prompt, since
this was widely published.

So: why not ask Microsoft what they use?


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.