.NET for Apache

PerlGuy was so kind as to forward us the news about the joint Apache/Microsoft combined press conference scheduled from Wednesday at the OSCON Quote: "We will announce news related to the Apache web server and Microsoft's development technology, .NET. This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference..." The email he recieved: Covalent Technologies will be holding a press conference at the O'Reilly Conference on Wednesday at 3:15 in suite 415 (during the afternoon break). We will announce news related to the Apache web server and Microsoft's development technology, .NET. This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference and an interesting follow up to Microsoft's appearance last year at the show as well as to their general comments on open source. Executives will be on hand to answer questions or to conduct one-on-one interviews after the announcement.

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Re:WTH?!?!?

[bmajik]

it is difficult for my tiny brain to avoid resorting to good old fashioned insults, but inspite of your galactically ignorant post, im going to do my best.

1) MS never said anything about OpenSource and cancer. It was GPL. GPL != OpenSource. Read the fucking articles and understand MS's point of view. MS is more than thrilled with BSD code and other non-ip-destroying licenses. They are not happy with GPL and they (correctly) point out that GPL infects everything it touches because it is viral in nature. This is not a debatable point, unless you just dont get GPL.

2) White flag on IIS ? IIS is a highly performant webserver that has a huge market share and is dirt easy to setup. It has a large selection of ISAPI applications and all kinds of software relies on it in ways that apache does not provide out-of-box (NTLM client auth for instance, or multiple hosted vdirs running with separate credentials but not using fork/suexec)

IIS is not dead. It's not even sick. I think you and the rest of the world will be pleasantly (or unpleasantly if you're an anti-ms zealot) surprised with IIS in the coming year.

Incidentally, you assume a lot of stuff about microsoft that is wrong, which makes you kind of an idiot. If microsoft has never done anything to help any apache or open source effort, why did they fly a few of the zend people into redmond for a week, having them perf tune php on iis ? Why is there a mod_frontpage for apache that microsoft publishes ?

If you want to hate microsoft, thats your choice. But really, please try and do a credible, intelligent job at it. Responding to sophomoric hip shot posts about Microsoft-this and microsoft-that which contain nothing but baseless opinion, speculation, and outright falsehoods gets irritating.