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From: Gareth Boden <gdb@plato.ansa.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 11:09:16 +0100
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:

> 
> In <51qa91$89o@manuel.anu.edu.au>, rxt651@leonard.anu.edu.au (Rohan Tronson)> 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.  

Not *quite* true.. many people buy NT server because they want to run a server
on it. If the server software wasn't included, it wouldn't get bought.

G.
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