[LI] [from O'Reilly] How Microsoft nearly ended up dominating the WWW

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rather interesting reading - at least to the MS bashers among us.

enjoy -
---s

Elbow Grease - the Webmonkey newsletter
http://www.webmonkey.com/

Thursday, 18 November 1999

The case against Microsoft has focused on how the company used 
its dominant operating system to get a choke hold on the Web 
browser market. 

But Tim O'Reilly - that rascal! - has another tale to tell. This one 
about how the monopoly was also attempting to control the Web 
server realm. And it probably would've gotten away with it, too, if it 
weren't for those pesky kids at Apache.   

In this Salon article, O'Reilly (yeah, THAT O'Reilly, publisher of the 
tech books with the random animals on the covers) explains how 
close we came to a Microsoft-dominated Web and why that wouldn't 
have been particularly great:  

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/16/microsoft_servers/




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