Invisible wrote:
> I'd actually be interested in finding such a beast... It seems odd that 
> nobody has made one.

It's only odd because what Exchange does is inherently difficult to do well. 
  Who is going to write such a thing, and try to compete with Exchange? It's 
not cool enough for random Linux enthusiasts to write from scratch, any more 
than OpenOffice was.

> So what does IIS do that Apache doesn't then? 

Windows logins. ASP.NET. Remote administration. A whole different processing 
module method. Interesting deployment options where you don't have to roll 
your own. Etc. Go read up on it.

> (Aside from giving root 
> access to anybody who types their URLs with backslashes instead of 
> forward slashes...)

Cite?

> OK, so *some* of them are worse. ;-)

Most of them are worse for *developers*, for one thing.

>> It sounds more like "I don't know the capabilities of Microsoft 
>> systems, so I listen to what Linux enthusiasts tell me about it." :-)
> 
> What makes you think it's the Linux enthusiasts? I hated M$ long before 
> anybody had even heard of Linus Travolds... And I don't buy it when 
> people say Linux is the answer. It's too messy and laden with backwards 
> compatibility...

OK, so who is telling you these things? You keep saying things that ought to 
be easy to support, but attributing them to "some guy told me"?


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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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