Basic answer is MS took a page from Apple & Borland - they practically give
away the stuff to start for education, figuring on hooking the students later.
Check some of the magazines & see the educational discounts. Of course, if
you want support...
jeff
Willard Flagg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ed,
> I'm a bit surprised to hear that the MS solution is cheap. Last time I
> checked Win95 was real cheap per seat, Win98 wasn't. Neither was NT.
> Perhaps the person you talked to was going to use a win9* box for the
> filter? I help a small school with their internet connection, they use
> win95 for the desktop with nt for domain control. They have a Vitts ADSL
> connection (has been a good performer) with 6 routed IPs. The firewall and
> mail/web servers are FreeBSD. All of the inside addresses use NAT on the
> firewall with 4 addrs available for mapping should a classroom need to
> become directly connected. I'd be interested in donating some cycles if
> others also want to piece together a template for a generic web proxy
> filter/server.
>
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Thought for today: feeper /fee'pr/ n.
The device in a terminal or
workstation (usually a loudspeaker of some kind) that makes the
feep sound.
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