NT 4.0 or NT4.0 Server?

[stone]

I think the 10 user license only applies to disk sharing. After all, the nt
server also comes with licensing restrictions. If they applied to http (or
ftp or telnet or any tcp/ip app) no one would use NT as a http server. Why
would anyone care though. We are only talking about a few hundres bucs here.

b.t.w. If you dont know UNIX (and even if you do), NT is much easier to
administer than Linux. 

Solaris is my favorate. It can play in all the internet games with little or
no porting.

Brian

 




At 10:57 AM 12/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Unfortunately, the control here seems to rest in Microsoft's legal
>department rather than with their technical folks.  It has been pretty well
>documented that NT Workstation is capable of running a serious web server,
>but doing so would likely violate your end-user license agreement, which
>includes a limit of 10 simultaneous users.  In fact, I'd be surprised to
>hear that IIS would even install on a machine that identified itself as
>running NTW.
>
>The 10-connection limit in NTW was originally created to limit LAN
>connections, which of course are substantially different from Web
>connections; a Microsoft technical report even seems to say that winsock
>connections are exempted, but that's not stated in the EULA.  The logical
>thing would have been for Microsoft to exempt Web connections in the NTW
>EULA and then actually to demonstrate some performance benefits in NTS. 
>But then Netscape called in the Department of Justice about this and other
>matters, and now it's probably imprudent for Microsoft to do anything but
>maintain the status quo.
>
>A not completely impartial discussion of this is at
><URL:http://www.ora.com/www/oracom/win/index.html> and
><URL:ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/windows/win95.update/ntnodiff.html>.
>
>BTW, Microsoft has just released IIS 3.0 in the last couple of days. 
>Required platform: NT Server 4.0.
>
>Thomas Dowling
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>Ohio Library and Information Network
>