mainly management usually doesn't like users running a server. We tried this out at the federal contracting job I had, and someone sqwuaked about my workstation having a web server running on it. So I took it off. But I was testing the workload and the transaction database on it.

Plus with Windows 9X/ME security is so laxed that the user can modify the files on the web server. Imagine a script getting loaded in Frontpage and getting messed up.

Or imagine you put Apache on the user's workstation and somehow they install PWS, or Oracle with the Web Services and it over-rides your Apache server? Or what if they uninstall it? Or what if they install some software that clobbers the files used for your web server?

Just some issues to think about.