[thelist] excellent article
Jay Greenspan
jay at trans-city.com
Wed Aug 15 13:11:09 CDT 2001
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?
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