At 11:24 AM 12/1/98 -0500, you wrote: >Excellent point indeed. I had just installed Apache 1.3 on a secondary web >server a little over a week ago and found it very easy to install, and seems >very flexible. One of the reasons I contacted Michelle about participating >in her project last week after reading her post to this mailing list, was >because I was a little disappointed about the availability of non-commercial >documentation available for Apache. To you all who are familiar with it, it >may seem adequate, but to a system administrator who's only worked with MS >applications, it is no where near adequate. As we all know, MS does things >a bit differently than the rest of the world, and it was a bit of a culture >shock for me.
This is always my first concern; it's even a little bit of a crusade for me. Any effort to broaden the acceptance and use of Open Source Software (like Apache, Linux, WINE) must, I feel, address the MS world. >Still, I adopted Apache into my network because I wanted to broaden my >knowledge, and I had always heard that Apache was an excellent web platform. >I had less trouble installing and running Apache, than I did with IIS4! Me too, and it's good to know that someone with a strong MS backgrouynd (as opposed to somebody like me who's sort of a Unix/MS hybrid) has had these kinds of headaches. >Maybe trouble isn't the appropriate word, but it took less effort certainly >to run Apache initially. > >I'm looking forward to working with Michelle on her project, and hope to >learn much from you all. I have plans to install more Apache servers on NT4 >systems, and have may install it on our Solaris servers as well. Way cool; the scope/foundation not only of case studies but even of tutorials would be that much more solid and valid if we can include as many OS environments as possible.
