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CNET News: Open-source Apache sidles up to Microsoft

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Stephen Shankland
Jul 15, 1999

Thanks to James Derry for
this link.

“A development at Microsoft Network shows once again that the
Web makes for some strange software bedfellows.”

“Although Microsoft firmly believes its own Web server software
is better than the upstart, open-source Apache program, it turns
out that the software giant has become one of many firms using
Apache.”

“While the main Microsoft Network Web site uses Web server
software based on Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system, the
personal home pages now offered as an MSN service are delivered by
Apache.”

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