Re: Relational Databases

Brian,
I beg to differ, in a nice way of course. PWS takes all of about 10 minutes 
to load and setup and begin serving web pages on a Win98 machine. It really 
doesn't have much of anything to configure, especially on a standalone 
machine. If one is a rookie, "stress rookie", to unix and web servers, 
Unix/Apache can be a very stressful to figure out.

I feel PWS is an excellent tool for learning and proof of concept work. I 
have to do lots of learning on my home network (no time at work) and with a 
little care, most of the work can be transferred to my office machines. 
(One of my home machines is a Linux machine, btw)

One thing I absolutely agree with you about is the big $$ commercial 
product cost on the Win platforms when you have to scale up. Unfortunately 
many of us are locked into that by corporate decree, especially those of us 
who do mostly intranet stuff.

In addition, and I may be wrong, I don't believe ColdFusion Express is 
available for anything but Windows, so at home I mostly use PWS.
Regards,
Dave G.

At 12:22 AM 4/7/00 +0100, Comharsa wrote:
> > >Fourth, can I simulate the server experience on my own machine with
>Personal Web
> > >Server?  What can I expect PWS to do and not do?
> >
> > PWS does work (from reports, never tried it here), .. but dealing with all
>of the Winxx configuration/software issues is a nightmare. The learning
>curve is a LOT steeper than Unix/Apache, IMHO, .. and you are locked into
>commercial products costing big $$ when you wish to go into production.
>
>There used to be a Win32 version of Apache available. Just checked - there
>still is. More info and downloads at http://www.apache.org/docs/windows.html
>. Might be worth trying for local experimenting.
>
>Brian
>comharsa(at)clara.net

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