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To: Technologyguy who wrote (3167)	4/11/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 28311

OT MSFT benefits the most, IMO. Lower cost of boxes, increasing use of NT, means more licenses for MSFT of the OS and the apps. There's no doubt that they benefit greatly as the web gets bigger, and they are -- as you say -- the main gainers as more folks hook up to the web. But so far, they haven't found a way to break into the backend with the big-boy net providers. Almost all of the biggest web sites still run on Unix. Even Microsoft's own Hotmail is still running on Unix. And (as we occasionally discuss at ad nauseum on any Microsoft board), NT no longer has the low-cost advantage for web servers since Unix houses can and often do run Linux on those same low-cost machines. Go2Net is a good example. Even here in Microsoft's backyard, they run the service on Sun and Linux machines. Another neighbor, Amazon, also runs on Unix. Microsoft is making headway -- especially with smaller web providers and with businesses hosting their own web pages -- but the mass of the internet seems to stay where it started, on Unix.