Understanding Microsoft's View of Databases and the Web
Giving away Web browsers, including Web servers with Windows NT Server 4.0, and distributing free Internet enhancements for browsers and servers isn't a business model that's likely to add much to Microsoft's bottom line. To earn a return on its Internet investment, Microsoft ultimately must sell, not give away, products. The initial objective of Microsoft's Internet program is to increase sales of Windows NT Server 4.0 as an Internet/intranet server and to make SQL Server 6.5+ the client/server database of choice for conducting Internet commerce and distributing information from corporate databases over private intranets. Data marts, data malls, and distributed transactions are the keys ...
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