Re: March 1998 article comparing NT/Unix/Linux as web servers

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:12:33 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 Chris Wedgwood <cw@ix.net.nz> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:18:30 +1300

I have to confess I did a double-take on 'GMT+13'...

> In many ways 'asp' is quite powerful. There are similar solutions for linux
> but I've yet to find one as fully featured with a good database integration.
>
> If someone knows of something like this, or is interested in developing
> something along these lines then please let me know.

I'm working on an ASP interpreter/compiler written in Java. The database
functionality will use JDBC. Should be done RSN.

As an aside -- the grammar for Visual Basic is the most perverse thing I
have ever seen.

> He does indicate that the Unix boxes are far more reliable and faster.
>
> Yeah... our NT web servers are lucky to have 10 days uptime, the unix ones
> often have 100+ (and even then are usually manually restarted for some
> reason or other).

The linux box I administer is at 65 days uptime with 2.0.32. I'm
certainly happy with it. ;-)
--Scott
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