Now see, I prefer case-sensitivity and *nix. Lines up with the way I was
taught.  Yet Mike has been on this list for as long time and has earned
respect for the number of times he's helped other members.

My, what a big, diverse world we live in - it's rough when there's no
clear-cut right or wrong and we all have to compromise and get along!

:)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kear" <mkear(at)afpwebworks.com>


A lot of systems have to integrate the web site with other parts of the
company's systems  - inventory, accounting whatever.   IF they have a MS
network throughout the company, then it makes good sense to have a MS server
for the web.

I run my hosting company on MS systems.  IT's FAR FAR easier to run sites on
MS believe me. For a start, the file names aren't case sensitive.   When I
work my Unix sites that is always an issue.

On my MS hosting sites, the other features you talk about are all standard -
php, MySQL etc as well as the MS stuff - MSSQL, .ASP, .ASPX  even though my
specialty is ColdFusion.

I originally got into ColdFusion because I had taken 5 times longer than my
budgeted hours to do a simple perl routine, and in my first 10 minutes of
working with ColdFusion (never having seen a manual - only an example) I had
the job done.

There are quite a few reasons for going with Microsoft options.  You can do
everything you can do on Unix and quite a few more things as well.

But please please please don't ask me to do anything with FrontPage because
it isn't nice when I tell you not to let the door  hit you in the ass on
your way out. <g>

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