You will find people that would argue that Linux is slower, less stable, and less secure than the BSD's, and in my experiences, it is, but more apps support Linux natively than BSD, and most hosting control panels only support certain versions of Linux (RedHat), so the prejudice is no different than Ford vs. Chevy, American Car vs. Japanese Car, what do you prefer? The reason projects like Mono and DotGnu exist is because MS intended it to be a competitive open standard to Java, which has been proven to be a closed Sun licensed product in court against MS.
Thanks, Chuck Frolick ArgoLink.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toby Reiter Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] XMail Platforms ( was Re: Xmail reports -- anyone have a wish list?) Beau, I don't think Shawn is exactly saying that, although I too am somewhat disappointed when I see someone building something for XMail in ASP/.Net. I'm pretty much 95% reluctant to install technologies on a *nix box to run MS proprietary code -- partially because of security concerns, partly because of philosophical concerns, but mostly because if I was going to use an MS-based solution, I would use an MS-based operating system. There are people who run a Windows 2003 box as just an XMail server -- to me that doesn't make sense, since with the same hardware, you could load Redhat from disk, install Xmail from RPMs and have just about the same ease of install and management as Windows 2003 (and, if I remember correctly there's a significant performance boost when using XMail on Linux). On the other hand, some people just like Windows. And there are Xmail utilities which are purely *nix based, and can't run at all on Windows -- so I guess it's not overly unfair when the tables are turned. In this case, it is possible to run .Net on a *nix box using Mono. For me, it's probably not worth it. I can understand why Shawn would want to develop using languages that he's comfortable with and which fits his solution -- quite frankly, I wouldn't develop Perl applications for deploying on a Windows box for precisely the same reasons I avoid .Net on *nix. Of course, I also avoid Windows too. Just my $0.02, Toby -- Toby Reiter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Breezing Internet Communications http://www.breezing.com 1106 West Main St phone:434.295.2050 Charlottesville, VA 22903 fax:603.843.6931 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
