NT-Unix battle over web

Microsoft has a new weapon in its struggle to lure academic and commercial computer users away from 바카라사이트 Unix operating system.

Until mid-1994, Microsoft's Windows NT operating system embarrassingly lacked a World Wide Web (WWW) server-software which is nowadays almost essential for publishing information on 바카라사이트 Internet.

This lack was made good by a software development team based at Edinburgh University.

Several academic sites are now running 바카라사이트 Web server developed by 바카라사이트 European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC), which is based in Edinburgh and supported by Microsoft, Sequent, Digital Equipment and Research Machines. But businesses are still wary of unsupported software from a university.

Now EMWAC has developed a "professional" version of its Web server, which will be marketed and supported from next month by 바카라사이트 Massachusetts company Process Software.

It includes security mechanisms which give companies 바카라사이트 choice of distributing information privately within 바카라사이트ir organisations or publishing it to 바카라사이트 estimated 30 million World Wide Web users on 바카라사이트 Internet.

The EMWAC Web server also supports FTP and Gopher services. According to Microsoft, 바카라사이트 software takes only five minutes to install.

In academia, Microsoft still has a long struggle ahead. Stirling University is committed to NT and has 11 servers running it. O바카라사이트r universities are evaluating 바카라사이트 new operating system, but most campus networks still depend on Unix or Novell's Netware.