From: Matthew Soffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Web Consultants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: WC:>: Re: CIO Insider: Flash is Trash?
On 5 Oct 98, at 8:27, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> > Beginning to think Unix geeks are a dying breed in web design. Spent
> > part of wekeend sorting through website bids. Asked specifically for it
> > to run on Unix and involve portable code, all but one bid trying to sell
> > me ASP and some line about code not having to be portable since it'd be
> > running on MS stuff, and there will never be a need to change it :P
>
> I am all for best tool for job. But if it weren't for unix there
> would be no internet. I hate to see people go the ms route as I see
> it as quicksand. Don't go proprietary.
I know this all too well. My full time job had it's Web and Intra net sites
developed on NT and not just NT but O'Riley Website (using its proprietary API
interface). When I was hired, we redid the servers to RedHat Linux 5.0 boxes.
We are now using MySQL instead of MS Access (although, we will be using Oracle
now that there is a LINUX port of it.) We alredy have the beta release and it
appears to work fine and we have alot of Oracle expertise here.
> BTW, I sent the author of the flash article a note. He replied that
> he had been chastised plenty about reference to unix geeks; he
> admitted he was referring to the wrong group.
>
> What I see happening now is that the people with no imagination, no
> spunk, no awareness outside their little world are given the job of
> creating intranets or internets or extranets (I can't say networks as
> that implies closed standards as opposed to the internet which
> implies open standards).
You may also have a site that has been designed by committee (I know this
from 1st hand experience).
> And I don't believe that intranets are different because you know
> your audience. Who says that everyone in a company must use windows
> or dos or mac or unix or linux or ... or that everyone must use
> netscape or ie or opera. I wouldn't have those restrictions in my
> company.
It depends. Some companies have made deals with M$ to be M$ only houses (we
can't have WordPerfect due to this agreement). Also you may have someone
who made an application that runs only on an NT because thats what they
had and they didn't think at all about portability, they only thought
about getting the job done.
Matthew Soffen - Webmaster http://www.iso-ne.com/
ISO New England
1 Sullivan Road
Holyoke, MA 01040-2841
(413) 535 8167
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