Re: [Fwd: IIS Installation]

George, I do not think so, as application become platform indipendant there is no need to keep it running on ms. Then you can choose for an cheaper stable platform. Regards, Jason "George Pitcher" <G.Pitcher@napier.ac.uk> wrote in message news:36402DCC1069D411922D00508B5B2CC209D77662@ex-server1.napier.ac.uk... > Alternately, it would be useful for those who have no choice but to work on > MS OS machines, to be helped in overcoming their problems. > > In one sense, making PHP cross-platform takes away one of the motives to > change to Linux/Unix/Mac. > > Speaking as one who has NT boxes with IIS and Apache as well as Mac/WebStar > and LinuxPPC/Apache. > > George P > > "Jason Bourne" <Jason_Bourne_68@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:<20010926072314.55993.qmail@pb1.pair.com>... > > Mark, > > > > I understand your problem, i have the same problems. Customers of mine > > demand running their apps on ms and iis, we have no choice. 70% till 90% > of > > their apps are running only on ms and they want 1 standard. So a decision > to > > choose another platform then ms is most of the time strategically and not > > functional. It's not the inexperienced person who decided which platform > to > > use but the management of the company. It's up to use as consultants and > > developers to help those managments to choose for a more secure and stable > > platform. > > > > Regards, > > > > Jason > > > > > > "Mark" <maggelet@mminternet.com> wrote in message > > news:200109252149.f8PLnXN00569@zeus.mminternet.net... > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:33:52 +0200, Didier Geheniau wrote: > > >mark, > > > > > >If people like you don't question the decisions other people in > > there > > >choice of platforms, but instead just help to make solutions like > > php > > >more portable (by making it work on questionable platforms) in > > future > > >company's will choose for better platform because there applications > > >become indipendent of a platform they are using!!!! > > > > I hear you, but at the same time I think it's important to point out > > the problems with setting up a product with known unpatched security > > holes, especially to an unexperienced admin. If someone has a box > > that's been running IIS for a while I would keep quiet but here's > > somebody who is trying to set up IIS for the first time which is > > irresponsible from my point of view since I'm the one who'll suffer. > > shall I forward this guy the onslaught of codered/nimda traffic I've > > been receiving lately from other people's compromized IIS > > installations to convince him? > > > > >regards, > > > > > >Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net