On 03/12/98 23:39:54 you wrote:

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:

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The alternative is pretty clear to me... don't use IIS/FrontPage if it requires you to redo your entire infrastructure or approach in order to support it.

I don't think that's an option, unfortunately. The challenge is to give customers what they need, rather than what they think they want. They want NT. What they need is an easy way to manage the content of their Web site and the e-mail of their employees, without having the first clue about the Internet.

I can sympathize. I'm sure everyone here does. We've ALL been there. :) And I'm not trying to start that tired old UNIX vs. NT argument. There are circumstances where NT is a fine solution. All I'm saying is that if the application isn't up to your needs, perhaps one should consider a different application. (And if that means a different platform, then you have reason to question NT in the first place.)

Writing our own software to do that would take a lot longer than buying an off-the-shelf product. Maybe we'll go with FrontPage with Apache on Solaris, or perhaps we'll find that NFS on NT with the Netapp does the job for us.

I wouldn't be surprised if IIS/FrontPage have the same troubles over NFS on NT, but I confess I don't know for certain as I've never tried it.

Bruce