[thelist] PHP on W2k/IIS5 - Any gotchas to be aware of?

[Garrett Coakley]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:09:18 -0400 Michael Kimsal
<michael at tapinternet.com> wrote:

> Just sticking my nose in here,

Hey, stick away. One of the reasons I started this thread is to get some
other points of view. I have my ideas.... but I'm always interested in
other evoltistas grey cells *:)


> Regardless of the consultative advice you give them, they're probably
> convinced that they can do better than the external company, so that's
> what they'll do.

This is definately one of my concerns. They've got a new IT director in,
so it was the first meeting I've had with him. He seems pretty switched
on though. It was a good meeting and he seems to want to carry on with
us as the developers, but this wasn't exactly the conversation I was
prepared for.


> Is it currently running under W2k IIS5?  Doesn't sound like it,
> otherwise you'd already know the pitfalls.

It's currently on a LAMP system. Thats my development platform. I
haven't used NT since ver4 came out.

As far as their in-house capabilities, that I don't know... yet. The
timescale for the move is 3+ months, so hopefully we'll have a few more
meetings first.


> I just don't get it.  Talk to them about moving to another application
> host - call me if you'd like and we can arrange something.  (shamless
> plug!).

Thanks for the offer, but I have the capapbility to host it myself if it
comes to that *;)

I share your misgivings though. Still, we'll see how it pans out.

G.

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