RE: newbie -how do you defend your decision?

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From: Jim Cheshire [MSFT] (jamesche_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/19/04


Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:00:57 GMT

Hey Scooby,

Here's a link that you might find helpful:

http://asp.net/whitepaper/whyaspnet.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

Concerning the Web server, IIS 6 is the most secure Web server available.
A recent independent study concluded that Windows Server 2003 is the most
secure operating system available today. If you really want to make it
rock solid, make sure you understand it properly and secure it properly.
Here's a link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/secmod124.mspx

I think you'll find that one of the number one benefits of going with a
Microsoft solution is the support you get, whether from our MVPs,
employees, and customers here in the newsgroup, or via our PSS Support
Engineers. Our support is the best in the industry, bar none.

Another great reason to choose ASP.NET is coming down the pipe; ASP.NET
2.0. ASP.NET is already so cool that no one can touch it. ASP.NET 2.0 is
light years beyond what you use today.

I think our story is very good. I think those who are realistic in their
approach and are not persuaded by preexisting bias agree.

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
jamesche@online.microsoft.com

This post is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.

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>As a new commer (hobbyist) this field, it's pretty hard not to get caught
in
>an anti microsoft debate. Open Source Apache/PHP vs MS .NET technologies. I
>ran into this article from a link of a link of a link on another weblog. I
>have actually been interested with .net ever since "it came out" late
>2001(or whenver that was). It sounded revolutionary. I've read a book
>"understanding .net" and have read other sites for regular reading liesure
>just to understand more and kind of stay up to date about things
>
>Anyways, I had written a bunch of other thoughts down trying to answer my
>own questions, but I didn't want to sound like a complete fool so here it
is
>in short.
>
>How do you argue IIS Security issues since "everyone" seems to believe it's
>an accident waiting to happen just having IIS installed.
>And also, their argument of .net being slower and more memory intensive
>because "more code is needed to be compiled/executed to produce the same
>output as simple php code". It sounds like it would make sense but I don't
>know.
>
>http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/hull_asp.html
>
>
>
>



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