Re: Apache/.asp question

Thanks to everyone for your replies, on, as well as off list. Basically 
everyone said the same thing. My answer is purely from a customer 
satisfaction standpoint. While I have nothing against .asp in general I 
would personally opt for another solution. We do support PHP4, but we are 
finding quite a few current customers, as well as potential customers, are 
asking for .asp. At least a good 7-10% of our new inquiries are asking for 
.asp. Several years ago we made the move to install Frontpage extensions 
after experiencing similar numbers. Today that number has grown to the 
point that nearly 50% of our customer base is using Frontpage.

Tino, it took almost a full year before the security holes, bugs, and 
what-not were worked out to the satisfaction of our admin dept and they 
felt comfortable enough to make the upgrade from FP98 to FP2000. Gladly, 
security is a huge issue on this network. I fear that if there are similar 
security concerns that go along with asp, this idea may be dead before it 
ever gets a chance to get off the table.

Thanks again,

Jim

At 11:54 PM 5/30/01 +0200, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

>Hi jim,
>
>are you sure you meant "upgrading" here? ;))
>In the past, installing the frontpage extensions has been a very
>big security hole (at least potentially and most of the time very
>real) and a stability hoog.
>I cant imagine this has been get better.
>
>cant you just give them standard scripts? .oO(or install Zope...)
>
>Regards
>Tino
>
>--On Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2001 15:37 -0500 jim <jim(at)newglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm thinking of upgrading some of our servers to support .asp files. We
>>run  Linux/Apache w/ Frontpage 2000 installed and the standard MySQL
>>database.  Is there any thoughts, pros/cons or ideas anyone would like to
>>share? I've  already been through the hassle of installing software just
>>to find an  incomparability or some type of conflict with something, and
>>thought I'd  ask here first.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jim
>

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