> * The illusion that Windows is easy to configure. People > think that you > don't need to know so much to configure Windows. This is wrong. The > complexity is there, but you don't see it, and you don't > control it. When > you don't know Unix, you can pretty much feel you're not the > king of the world.
I really didn't want to perpetuate this thread, since it's getting a bit long in the tooth, but has anyone on this list had the pleasure of using Webmin on Linux? Now THAT's ease of configuration. It beats anything I've EVER seen in my 7 years of Win32 system administration. > * Apache is driven by feature-to-market, IIS is driven by > time-to-market. > In general, Open Source software is released when the authors > feel it's > finished, commercial software is released when someone > promised the market > it would be, based on an estimate someone other than the > developers made > six months ago. In general. A case in point would be Apache's only recent endorsement of running its Win32 port in production environments. It was unstable, and they said so "right on the box". If this were the case with Microsoft, we wouldn't have been using IIS until version 5.0 (Win2k), since IIS 4.0 was still one of the buggiest pieces of crap to ever serve a packet. What freaking nimrod thought to tie FTP, SMTP, NNTP, AND the HTTP server all into one process? Talk about losing the farm when your process crashes. This is STILL an issue with IIS 5. Sorry, I shouldn't have gotten started. Too early in the morning for this kind of bile. I'll shut up now... jpt _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
