[thelist] excellent article (sic)

[Richard Bennett]

hi Jay,
I'm quite surprised to find you - (you are the MySQL/PHP+Webmonkey Jay
aren't you?) - supporting such a negative view of opensource technologies.
The article seems totally biased, not to any logical side , but to Java!?

He says people are no longer interested in a "vanilla" server, but want
things like drag-and-drop interfaces and "webserving plus e-commerce" - as
though e-commerce isn't possible on Apache.
Well, for 90% of users running-costs, stability, and security are a lot more
important than drag-and-drop interfaces.

Reading between the lines he seems to be saying that because Apache doesn't
support .NET, and ISS is from Microsoft, we should all switch to
JavaServer -  ahh yes, let's do that.

I'm sure Namezero didn't change to ISS because they needed a drag-and-drop
interface. I have a domain-name registered with Namezero, and in two years
time the only adverts I saw from them were for their own companies or
services. Now they have nice glossy adverts for Microsoft XP.
If Microsoft buys allegiance from companies that need a cash injection, they
will indeed be able to make a dent in the server-language-use charts, but
for all the wrong reasons.

Richard Bennett.