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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!not-for-mail From: nick@Ireland.EU.net (Nick Hilliard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 19 Sep 1996 16:26:28 +0100 Organization: EUnet Ireland Lines: 34 Message-ID: <51ron4$8hs@ezekiel.ieunet.ie> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51oph4$4vj@due.unit.no> <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au> <51r06d$gol@symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ieunet.ie X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130171 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27558 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43798 tedm@agora.rdrop.com said: : >which is my background, if you disagree with a published result, and can : >prove it, you publish your own, contraditory results. Which it seems is : >what we need to do as a community (with more than just this issue)! : The problem with this is that this still won't prove anything to anybody. ZD is a media company more interested in saying politicall correct things and selling rags to suits and other lusers than dispensing information that could actually be considered accurate. : I feel compelled to point out here that Microsoft is not making a dime from : Internet server, since a peer-to-peer version is included with NT workstation, and : a so-called full version is included with NT server. If you want to run any form of proper WWW server on NT (i.e. > 10 TCP connections), you have to buy NT server which costs 3 times as much. When you buy NTS, you get IIS and no longer need to buy another WWW server from Netscape or another 3rd party. This reduces their sales and makes them less of a potential threat in other areas. Microsoft aren't interested in a situation where everybody makes lots of money. Their interests are in getting all money for themselves. Have you ever heard Bill Gates referring to CEOs of other companies as people of "finite greed"? But enough Microsoft bashing. The origial article wasn't worth the web space it used. : The Apache group is also not making a dime off of Apache since it's free. Agreed. But they get lots of kudos - perhaps that's what they want? Nick