From: "Geo." 

"Randall Parker"
 wrote in
message news:3fa8630a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Suppose you did switch to Linux on at least some servers. Do many of
> your customers use APIs that are not available on Linux?
>
> Like, is there an open source ASP clone?

ASP is the lockin, I don't know of any way to run asp pages on a unix
platform, that's why php exists.. I like asp way better, it's more secure.
(let me rephrase that, it has a better security record).

> Maybe you ought to put portable API sets such as Perl stuff and PHP
> stuff on your servers now so that come 2008 your customers will have
> been coding with portable APIs rather than Win-specific ones.

Why? I'll just keep the old NT servers and add new unix ones if I decide to
move. Web customers are fickle, I can pick up new ones who want php or perl
quite easily. For example all those interland customers who's websites are
still being compromised daily... 

> I really like the way Hosting Matters puts tons of Perl, PHP, MySQL, and
> other stuff on their Linux servers. If I need some Perl module they
> don't already have installed they put it on in a jiffy.

Bad practice, it's not safe. At a minimum they have probably exposed your
site to every other website owner on the box where your site is hosted.
(try and make perl so it's limited to just one site sometime, it's
impossible).

Geo.

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