To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (44919 ) 5/18/2000 2:13:00 PM From: JC Jaros Read Replies (1) | Respond to
BTW, thanks for telling me about Netcraft ... --- You're welcome. --- As big an improvement that Win2k may be, the assertion that NT may have a larger web server market share would run radically against the trend. There's no escape from the Internet being a collection of Unix services. I think the days of people believing Bill Gates' promise to create a "better Unix than Unix" are long gone. --- The Internet runs on Unix and not VAX/VMS for a reason. Much of that reason is to do with the GUI being folded into the kernel. Windows is designed for an end user context. Unix wasn't. FWIW, a system administrator, unless he or she keeps the web server on the nightstand, is apt to chose Apache on *nix if for no other reason than remote admin. In the end, it's all about the architecture. Mac OS X includes FreeBSD for reasons beyond novelty (IMO). Speaking of FreeBSD (Bill Joy style 'Linux') it does MS Front Page extentions. When you talk about having support for MS programs, is that what you mean? --- You're
right about the network being heterogeneous (something the M$ business plan wasn't/still isn't prepared for). It doesn't mean though that folks run Adobe Go Live on the same machine as the web server. At some point, you need to break out of the 'one machine does everything' PC precept. On the other hand, through a licensing agreement with AT&T (who has access to the Win32 codebase), Sun Microsystems is able to offer the most robust, scalable and generally ascended solution of availing Windows services on the enterprise (Solaris) server, but that's relatively high end. In the space you're talking about, I think, the typical configuration would involve the Samba program which makes Linux a pretty much invisible replacement for the Network Neighborhood (there goes the neighborhood). --- So, less and less is it about sucessfully sheilding the user from the machine with an idiot proof interface, especially when it's so easy for any idiot to gain 'super user permissions' and wreak massive havoc. --- Making the
choice between running Apache/*nix or Apache/W2k is like an IQ test. :) -JCJ
