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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!newsfeed.internetmci.com!athos.itribe.net!server.esva.net!news1.mnsinc.com!news From: dyfet@tycho.com (David Sugar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Apache vs Netscape Commerce Server Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 21:13:15 GMT Organization: Tycho Softworks Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4o7ted$cdr@news1.mnsinc.com> References: <4ni00j$9jb@news2.cais.com> <4o2p59$p7v@news.enterprise.net> <4o4nho$j58@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.55.21.12 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) wrote: >If it is true that Netscape is not continuing development of BSDI >Netscape servers, then they have already lost to Microsoft. The one >thing that saves them in this market place is multi-platform support. >Microsoft will never support another operating system. >(I actually think that Netscape consistently produces far superior >software to Microsoft, but most of the computing world is too stupid to >understand this and so they spend their green votes on MicroBorg.) It certainly sounds like a formula for failure to me. Certainly, some of the performance 'advantage' of a Netscape server would immediately be lost due to poorer OS design. Couple that with the Microsoft give-away of IIS while forcing standardization on NT of it's own incompatible Windows centric (ActiveX, etc) extensions, and you have a product in the wrong place with the wrong features for the likely NT target market, at the wrong time.