Re: [phplib] Microsoft... From: Jens Benecke (phplib <email protected>)
Date: 06/04/01

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:28:15PM +0100, James Johnson wrote:

> In this case 'doubling the price' or 'saying no' isn't really an option -
> this would be a key contract for my company and it is too good a business
> opportunity to turn down. And like I said, for various complex reasons
> there is no hope of persuading them not to use an all Microsoft platform
> - even their IT Director (CTO) has his hands tied on that decision!

Well, you can make a lot of money on this if you do it 'right' - i.e. tie
them to a long term support contract. NT machines do need more personell to
keep going, and Windows as a server OS is is much more troublesome so they
need more manpower to keep it going.
 
> What I would be very interested in hearing about is any large web
> development project that have successfully used PHP and on a Windows
> 2000, IIS and MS SQL platform. Has nobody got any examples of this?

Actually, I don't know of ANY business that risks it's IT infrastructure by
installing Windows on the servers. Not even Microsoft does this - the main
data crunchers are IBM AS/400 machines, the routers at Microsft HQ are
Ciscos, the firewalls are by Novell. ;)

The only thing that runs Win2k are the (visible) web servers, and those are
six machines, babysat by 31(!) administrators, day and night.
 
(Ask yourself why you should use an OS that the developer company doesn't
even use themselves.) 

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                 in the kernel configuration was originally written by a MS
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