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Subject: RE: MS ProxyServer 2.0 sucks
From: Emmanuel Tychon <manu @ acm . org>
Organization: http://linux.rtfm.be
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 16:46:21 +0100 (MET)
To: "firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM" <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <51D5AE1F9F4ED111A1D6004033CAC69624BA @ MAIL01>
Reply-to: manu @ acm . org

On 27-Jan-98 Lachlan McIntosh wrote:

> Microsoft Proxy Server is not just a HTTP based proxy.

> It works VERY well and is well worth the cost, and for the most part the
> small cost of proxy server is irrelevant 
> to organisations who are already running NT and have already invested in
> client access licences for NT.
 
> Linux or BSD currently don't have any technology that comes close.

You forget the most important part of the MSPS 2.0: the clients need to install
the "Microsoft Proxy Client". This client exists only for Windows based
machine, thus say goodbye to other OSes.

I think this is a solution for the dummies.

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