Sorry to be a bearer of bad news for your programmer, but NT runs cgi very
well, there is a specific version put out by www.activestate.com for the
win32 platform. It is a little more efficient on a Unix based platform, but
it is just inefficient in these modern days of ASP and Cold Fusion.
The moral of the story is the need is to drop cgi not the server as it will
handle it just fine. Just remember no matter what platform cgi and perl
scripts are probably the most hacked type of application of all.
Let me know if you have any further questions or comments.
Robert Filipovich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Computer-assisted Reporting & Research"
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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: cgi and asp
> Ned
>
> I've forwarded this to the ColdFusion mailing list. I expect one or more
of
> those programmers
> will have comments and advice for you.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ned Seaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 6:28 PM
> Subject: cgi and asp
>
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > Pardon the cross-post.
> >
> > A programmer guy at our paper says he has done a bunch of
database-related
> > work in cgi, but our website is currently on an NT server. I am being
told
> > that the NT server won't really run cgi very well, so we need to get a
new
> > server -- I'm being pushed in the direction of a Cobalt "Raq" server, I
> > believe they're called -- in order to avoid months of work learning asp
> and
> > then converting all the cgi stuff to asp.
> >
> > Neither alternative is all that exciting to me, since I'm supposed to
keep
> > costs down.
> >
> > Can anyone offer advice?
> >
> > We plan to use the programs (whether in asp or cgi) to manage content
and
> > rotate ads on our site, as well as various search-related functions.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --Ned Seaton
> > The Manhattan (KS) Mercury
> > www.themercury.com
> >
>
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