Interesting wrt switching from IIS to Solaris as web server

[Peter]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:33:14PM +0200, Peter wrote:
>>
>> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.af.mil
>>
>> IIS on Linux ?! <grin> Probing further, army.mil is a Mac shop (on Mac
>> OS X) and the us navy runs IIS on Linux. The usmc runs IBM lotus domino
>> on something secret.
>
> If you see IIS on Linux, it usually means IIS on a windows server behind
> a Linux based load balancer/proxy/caching accelarator.

Ah, thanks, that is good to know. I had not thought of it.

> Some managers for some reason believe that having products from a big
> vendor means there is someone to hold responsible when things don't work
> or to call for help.  Now when they last managed to hold MS accountable
> for anything or got any real help out of them I don't know, but they
> still believe it works that way.  Apparently you just can't help
> certain people understand technology enough for them to actually make
> intelligent decisions.  This doesn't stop them from making decisions
> anyhow.

I agree. I think that the managers should be obliged to read and sign 
the EULA every time they purchase something with that license. It would 
also be an instructive exercise to call support with a small problem 
just to see how much elevator music one can listen to and to rediscover 
that computer support people try hard but that that's not enough most of 
the time.

thanks,
Peter
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