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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: johnd who wrote (44376)	5/5/2000 4:26:00 PM
From: johnd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Are there any 16-way SMP machines out there running windows2000? In fact I know only Unisys, Compaq, Dell, IBM that have 8-way SMPs right now. HP seem to limit at 6. Gateway, ALR, Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi - I don't know.

To: johnd who wrote (44376)	5/5/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

john - there's a reason why the apache / linux combination is so prominent in the web server space - it's robust, easy to administer, cheap, fast and efficient. Hard to argue with that combo. I personally don't see any easy way for MSFT to get ahead there. They also have a lot of work to do in web caching - my favorite product is the NOVL package but there are several which beat the pants off MSFT.

To: johnd who wrote (44376)	5/6/2000 7:24:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

Apache is just a thin "layer", making cgi programs etc. fully compatible with all kinds of browsers, http protocols etc. You can describe it technically in different ways and you can analyze the differences between IIS and Apache in many ways. It doesn't matter at all. What does matter is the tools following it. With Apache, you typically use Perl, PHP3 and cgi etc. IIS is typically used together with Active Server Pages and ActiveX objects. In order to make things stable on the MSFT platform, you also need the Microsoft Transaction Server. What MSFT is building up is a programmable web server thing, that competes with solutions like Lotus Domino, Oracle Webserver stuff, proprietary solutions and Unix/Linux puzzles. Apache is good for big webhotels with many thousands customers per server and for scalable solutions. Apache scales from the smallest matchbox computers to the biggest mainframes. What IIS is good at, is to provide the programming tools Windows programmers know, in an easy way. It clearly has higher costs of operation, but often lower cost of development. Since a web-server is very dynamic and is often changed, development costs can be significant. What MSFT must do to improve the market share for IIS, is to enhance scalability and continue delivering easy-to-use programming tools for it. None of the two web-servers will ever "win".