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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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