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1. Comment - IIS 7.0 Learns a Few Tricks from Apache

   (Sep 16, 2005 - 9:49 PM)

   IIS Rocks -- especially with .NET. MS stuff is like Leggo blocks -- just figure out what you need to do, and snap the right blocks together.
   
   What Microsoft does (as it seems to me) is to look at the standards, look at what's available, pick the best, ignore the rest, take standards when they suit them, and extend the standards when the standards are weak and limiting.
   
   For MS -- there are no rules. Nobody tells them what to do, or forces them to limit their technologies based on anyone else's definitions of what is 'standard' or 'right'.
   
   Be honest. There are things you can do in a 100% MS environment that are simply NOT POSSIBLE by creating bas****ized environments with so-called 'best of breed' technologies. (None of which communicate seamlessly with each other -- if even at all.)
   
   I can build a web app, or desktop app using an MS-platform that does amazing things in virtually no time at all and will far less code than any other solution.
   
   Instead of being afraid of ActiveX, COM, DCOM and .NET -- I welcome them, embrace them and love them!
   
   If I need reporting capabilities for my application, I plug in Word. If I need numeric functionality or graphing, I plug in Excel. I can build desktop applications or web-based applications with equal ease -- and migrate back and forth with only minor adjustments to the code. Building fast, efficient, scalable, secure and robust client-server applications and communicating with an SQL-Server database is almost child's play.
   
   OF COURSE IT IS NOT FREE -- BUT WHAT IS YOUR TIME WORTH??? If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. (Or spend more of your time monkeying around rather than building applications.) :)