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16/02/2005, 20h00

"drhowarddrfinedrhoward" <a@hotmail.com> writes:
> What does a web server do for me that I can't do by programming sockets?
> Sure I have to do the work but when you see MS charging $1200 for server
> software I can't but think I'm missing something.

You can ask the same question about almost any program from Microsoft,
i.e. why pay for Windows when you can get other, better OS's for free?

In the case of web servers, Apache is the most popular one on the net,
and you can download it for free from www.apache.org.

16/02/2005, 20h00	#2
Paul Rubin Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Server vs sockets "drhowarddrfinedrhoward" <a@hotmail.com> writes: > What does a web server do for me that I can't do by programming sockets? > Sure I have to do the work but when you see MS charging $1200 for server > software I can't but think I'm missing something. You can ask the same question about almost any program from Microsoft, i.e. why pay for Windows when you can get other, better OS's for free? In the case of web servers, Apache is the most popular one on the net, and you can download it for free from www.apache.org.