Comments on: Open Source Software Turned Industrial but Perceived Quality Don’t Change http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/open-source-software-turned-industrial-but-perceived-quality-dont-change/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul A Houle http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/open-source-software-turned-industrial-but-perceived-quality-dont-change/comment-page-1/#comment-3682 Paul A Houle Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:03:30 +0000 http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=126#comment-3682 Huh? Open source is alive and well on the Windows platform. One of the big attractions of the Apache/PHP/MySQL stack is that it works great on both Windows and Unix. You can develop apps on either platform and deploy on either. That said, Microsoft has put a lot of investment into making a platform (Visual Studio, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server) that's attractive for people to work in. As a developer, I like ASP.NET a lot, but as a sysadmin, I don't like Windows. I find it almost effortless to administer tens or hundreds of sites on an Apache server. I could probably figure out a good way to do it on IIS if I had to, but the thought of administering a Windows computer in a colo a thousand miles away gives me the creeps. Huh?

Open source is alive and well on the Windows platform.

One of the big attractions of the Apache/PHP/MySQL stack is that it works great on both Windows and Unix. You can develop apps on either platform and deploy on either.

That said, Microsoft has put a lot of investment into making a platform (Visual Studio, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server) that’s attractive for people to work in.

As a developer, I like ASP.NET a lot, but as a sysadmin, I don’t like Windows. I find it almost effortless to administer tens or hundreds of sites on an Apache server. I could probably figure out a good way to do it on IIS if I had to, but the thought of administering a Windows computer in a colo a thousand miles away gives me the creeps.

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