[thelist] excellent article

[Jay Greenspan]

I was at OSCON last month, and some of the things you hear there are 
amazing. One guy, who I know to be very bright, told me that _no_ 
high-volume sites use IIS -- they're all using *nix. It's so silly it's 
laughable.

At OSCON, there seemed to be a general belief that .NET services will 
indeed happen. Brian Bellendorf, Tim O'Reilly, the guys at Ximian, 
DotGNU, and others seemed to be resigned to this future. At this point, 
I don't believe it's an equivalent of Push. Not at all.

I point to this article because I really believe that OSS has 
contributed a ton to our lives -- as developers and users of the Web. 
But from what I see, MS has the potential of owning a large portion of 
the Web if a reasonable alternative doesn't come around.

And while the improvements in Apache 2.0 are nice (multi-threading, 
protocol abstraction) they're hardly revolutionary. I talked to Ryan 
Bloom at *last year's* OSCON when he said 2.0 was around the corner. 
Aint done yet.

-j


> Apache has hardly been treading water as he suggests(this is only the 
> second time apache has lost market share in the past 3-4 years). I'm 
> not real up to date on the whole 'web services' thing(is this a new 
> name for 'web applications'?), but just because "everyone" is talking 
> about "something" thats going to be The Next Big Thing(tm) doesn't mean 
> its going to happen, no matter *HOW* much money is behind it.
>
> Push technology ring a bell?