[Phpwm] too much M$ bashing

[BinaryKitten]

I still prefer Apache over IIS but again when it boils down to it, it's 
becoming more of a "preference" rather than a mandatory "Choice".
The keynote at phpuk 2009 was all about how the further we go along, the 
only difference between whether a piece of software lives or dies will 
be down to it's usability. If IIS remained the way it was, extremely 
difficult to configure properly etc, then it wouldn't have survived. 
Microsoft, though many of us hate to be reminded of this, along with 
Apple set the goal posts a lot of the time for everyone else to beat, 
and yes .. a lot of the time those goal posts are beaten and left behind 
.. but all that does is just set a goal post for Microsoft and Apple to 
improve or die.

As J rightly said, having both will only improve your skill set. Which 
is never a bad thing.

Kat

Jujhar Singh wrote:
 > Whilst linux is my preferred deployment platform; having the option of
 > running a stable PHP environment on Windows & IIS is very useful.  I'm
 > sure all you have come across or will come across scenarios with your
 > customers where you can't introduce a Fedora box and your app has to run
 > on Windows and talk to SQL server.
 >
 > This is the case at my current workplace and I must say that PHP 5.2.6
 > runs pretty well on IIS 6.  I can't wait till a release version of 5.3
 > comes out which has been compiler optimised for windows.
 >
 > Having both options under your belt will only make you more desirable to
 > companies looking for solutions to fit in with their existing systems.
 >
 > Regards
 >
 > J
 >
 > Jujhar Singh
 > Medilink WM