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No Respect for Windows Open Source
man_of_mr_e writes "Shaun Walker, one of the founding developers of the DotNetNuke Portal/CMS has written an interesting piece about Open Source software on the Windows platform. "It's hard being an open source project on the Microsoft platform. Because no matter how hard you try to exemplify true open source ideals, you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community." He also says "There are Open Source zealots who believe that unless an application is part of a stack which includes 100% Open Source services and components, that it can not claim to be Open Source. [...] But does this "stack" argument actually make any sense?""
1) They use ASP.NET with VB.Net, which is Object Oriented, and any day for me a better environment to develop web apps than php or perl (ya so burn me). I do not know about you PHP and ASP 3.0 (vbscript or javascript) both lend themselves to bad code, because they are at heart scripting languages. Not to say people cannot develop clean applications on them
2) IIS 6 does not have any remote vulnerabilites in its default install. It has been out for two years. Thus if you compare IIS 6 to Apache 2, IIS is far more secure than apache. IIS 6 Application management far outstrips what apache currently has.
In summation, if you dont know what you are talking about, either learn, or quit spreading mis information