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Who did microsoft purchase IIS from?

I know the wiki says that they created it, but I am pretty sure they purchased it from another company.

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  • Perhaps you are thinking of SQL Server, which was originally a port of the Sybase SQL Server? Jan 10, 2020 at 22:17

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From Wikipedia:

Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly Internet Information Server) is an extensible web server created by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family.

History

The first Microsoft web server was a research project at the European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre (EMWAC), part of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and was distributed as freeware. However, since the EMWAC server was unable to handle the volume of traffic going to Microsoft.com, Microsoft was forced to develop its own web server, IIS.

  • IIS 1.0 was initially released as a free add-on for Windows NT 3.51.

Both research and development appear to have started at Microsoft.

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