Many thanks for the good info. I'm passing this along to my boss, who will
understand all the ramifications of this better than I will. My expertise
is in technical writing and Web development. I'm pretty ignorant when it
comes to how Web servers work.
Cordially, Mary
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At 09:54 PM 8/30/98 +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>> Sorry, Ivan, I guess I didn't make myself clear. We do have the server
>> hardware - a Pentium 166, running NT OS. We also have a LAN in operation.
>> What we're needing is the intranet server software.
>
>OK as I said you don't need the SW since NT Workstation has
>MSPWS (microsoft peer web service) and NT Server has IIS 4.
>
>IIS 4 comes with ASP, a standard to mix HTML and scripting
>languages - server side - (VBScript or JScript or optional Perl and
>other) in the same file, + some standard interface to DB (Access,
>MS SQL and some other).
>
>With PWS you have to install ASP and I suggest also to install
>MDAC 1.5 (Microsoft Data Access Component).
>
>Another suggestion is to install Service Pack 3.
>
>Evrything is aviable on MS site for free (once you've paid for NT).
>
>If you need to know more on ASP etc... let me know...
>What are you planning to do with your intranet? What kind of
>services???
>
>Of course there are other server software for NT... if you need a
>list...
>
>But I think that after all it's better to choose "free" MS SW. Think
>about DR-DOS and "compatibility" problem with 3rd party
>products!!! :-(
>
>I'm obliged to use MS product for parthership/sponsorization
>reasons but why do you need to use NT???
>Linux is free, it has very powerful scripting tools, it requires LESS
>resource and with a P166 could perform really fast compared to an
>NT system. There are a lot of free Perl script out there and Perl
>offer things that the default NT scripting languages don't offer (eg.
>regular expression). It seldom crashes. What else... just ask other
>list members who are really more expert than me on unix...
>
>I have to admit that ASP offers a really nice feature... the
>possibility to mix in the same file HTML and a server side scripting
>language, but I've heard there are scripting languages on unix
>plattaform that offer the same feature (there is also an ASP clone).
>
>I don't know how it is easy to connect to a DB with Linux scripting
>language but with ASP is very easy... you should ask to other
>members...
>
>Ivan, that finally has found a not exotic question to answer, but that
>after all enjoy to answer exotic question a lot.
>
>BTW I'll have another person who will share with me the NT
>problems :-)
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