Re: arguments against moving site from Linux/Apache/PHP server to Windows/IIS/PHP needed

* Thus wrote sebab@dialcom.com.pl (sebab@dialcom.com.pl): > Hi, > > I have to convince one guy to not move our site from Linux box where > it runs with Apache/PHP + MySQL to Windows box where it's going to deal > with Windows 2k/IIS/PHP(CGI) + MySQL and I need really good arguments, > cause it's only way I can convince him (cause his position in company > is much stronger than mine). > > I know that PHP under windows is intended to be used only as test > platform, but this is not enough to convince him. Perhaps back when php3 was new and apache was strugling with windows, it was considered test platform. > > Can you help me? I need some reasons like things that won't work under > windows version of PHP (or at least MySQL) and that are not easy to > fix. I've already found that IIS doesn't provide > $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] but it's not too much work to fix that.. Its kind of difficult to come up with reasons not to use IIS without knowledge of: 1. Who and what experience does he(she) have in administrating these Windows servers. 2. What kind of application do you intend write in php. Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."