----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hoegeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver 4 - Win32 not supported?
> Jerry Asher wrote: > > > > The decision to drop Win32 has been kicking around for some time now. > > > > My interpretation of the chat two weeks ago was that dropping Win32 support > > should make it easier to make AOLserver more robust and maybe faster in the > > UNIX environments. It will definitely make it an easier application to > > support. > > the biggest down side is that it's harder to sell aolserver if > you can't say "oh yeah, it runs on windows if you need to deploy it > there too.." > it makes AOLserver seem that much more irrelevant to the unwashed > masses.. > > i think the real "competitor" to aolserver is apache and if apache runs > on windows but aolserver does'nt.. it becomes a harder sell.. But the real point is that AS isn't a product.. its a piece of software that we are reaping the benifits of using.. and as a result they have to do the stuff that makes the best sense for them... we are the ones that have to figure out how to best leverage what they do.. -- Patrick Spence, MIS Mayor Pharmaceutical Labs/Regency Medical Research, Ltd. 2401 South 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.vitamist.com
