Take it from someone who knows,
First off, for all those Windows faithful flamers out there, don't get me
wrong, I do both at my site. Both OS's have their place. But I spend
more time and money on the Windows segments which actually comprise less
of my architecture than my Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD machines.
I don't want to start the OS wars again, or a flame contest. Most Unix
shops will just sit back and smile when someone says their thinking of
going to windows to solve some problem.
But,,, From personal experience.
If you go the Microsoft route you will end up spending the same if not
more on administration fees. Toss in the requirement to purchase beefier
hardware to get the same performance, not to mention the creep that comes
with anything Microsoft. By creep I mean, you start with one server, then
someone gets the bright idea to do .NET or install AD, or horror of
horrors, do both, so everyone can work "seamlessly" on the new IIS
webserver. Which BTW has now turned into a farm. Then you'll end up
doing Microsoft exchange for email. Ahhh the nightmares of security too.
That by itself is almost a full time job. IIS probably has the worst
reputation and track record of any internet server ever made. You'll
spend lots of time running around fighting email worms and system upgrades
to cover newly discovered security holes, only to have your entire site
brought down by some script kiddie in Sweden, if not completely erased by
some worm.
Two years after you've started you'll look back at Linux and wish you'd
never left.
just my two $.02
rls
Yaogeng Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/15/2003 09:15 AM
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Subject: Tomcat on windows platform?
Hi,
We are currently running a web server using apache + tomcat on a linux
machine, but we want to move the web server to a windows machine to avoid
linux system administration. Could anybody share some ideas on how well
apache+tomcat work on windows platform, and how is the security compared
with Linux machine? If apache+tomcat doesn't work well, is there an
alternative solution to run the JSP and Servlet on windows without
degrading
the performance?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Yaogeng
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