Re: Apache Extension for FrontPage

Ray,

And with M$ attitude towards IBM and specifically the AS/400 (iSeries) do you
think they will support the port so they can crow or kill it as a threat to
them?

Roger Vicker, CCP


Ray wrote:

> I did suggest it to Ready-to-Run and got the following back after submitting
> my suggestion:
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.  Ready-to-Run Software correlates all request
> for additional operating systems and web servers and forwards this
> information to Microsoft.  Your suggestion will be included in our next
> compilation.
>
> It's interesting they just wind up forwarding the request to M$.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:11 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Appache Extension for FrontPage
>
> "Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> 001501c21b83$71832100$10c810ac@NewDesk">news:001501c21b83$71832100$10c810ac@NewDesk...
> >         I have read this three times, and I am not really sure what you
> are
> > asking. I use FP to publish via FTP to my 170 all the time and have had no
> > problems since I setup the FTP server on the 170.  However, if you are
> > looking for ASP support and/or FP extensions then that is totally
> different
> > issue. Apache supports plug ins like Chilisoft for some of this support
> and
> > the individual admin would have to determine what support is appropriate
> and
> > configure that into the instance.
>
> Frontpage extensions are a lot more than just publishing content.
>
> There's security management, pluggable web automation, collaborative
> development, etc.
>
> I think it would be a find thing for someone to port frontpage extensions to
> apache on the 400.  Contact Ready to Run software
> (http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/) to see if they can/will do it.
>
> david
>
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> David Gibbs
> Sr. Software Engineer / R&D / MKS Inc., www.mks.com
> Lombard, IL, USA; tel: 630-495-2108; fax: 630-495-3591
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