[H-GEN] fowarding port 80

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi Joel,

On 19 Mar 2002, Joel Michael wrote:
> Agreed.  In my experience, there isn't anything that IIS can do that
> Apache can't.

If you are willing to sell your soul and go MS all the way the integrated
development tools are truly outstanding. It is possible to go step through
the whole series of executions from ASP -> message queue -> C++ front end
-> SQL running in SQL Server and back again. Of course, stray just a
little from the fold and you are completely hosed. Also, trying to
upgrade from one version of a component (SQL Server, IIS, ...) without
upgrading everything and you similiarly find yourself hosed.

So IIS and friends together allow faster development with less programming
skill. We can all imagine the quality of software that results, though,
and I will not be at all surprised to see shock-horror oppinion pieces
about the life-time cost of this software.

Cheers,

Raymond
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