Article: The Internet: Just Another Name for Client/Server Computing
By James Utzschneider
Product Manager, Microsoft Developer Division
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The Internet is a cross-platform environment, and Microsoft is working with partners to ship versions of OLE that run on UNIX®; implementations (including LINUX) and mainframes. Microsoft has other projects under development to extend OLE in this market, including the OLE Transactions technology for easily building scalable Internet business servers with components
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The article is dated December 1995.