Re: WAMP will beat LAMP pretty soon!


I personally think that virtual hosting will become the norm over the next few years. One quad/quad-core Xeon machine with 32GB of RAM can easily host 40-60 virtual machines. This box will be running something very lightweight as the host, like a minimal Linux distro.

Mac OS X users now have Parallels, and VMWare is due to release their VM Host for OS X "by summer". Parallels just issued an update that has support for something called "Coherency" that lets you run Windows apps right from the OS X desktop as if they're native to OS X. In fact, they're running in a VM. X Windows already does something similar.

Wine is making good headway as a solid simulation platform for Windows-in-Linux environments.

In contrast, MS has decided to "protect" Vista users against themselves by prohibiting the three simplest / cheapest versions of the OS from being used in virtual environments. Some mumbo-jumbo about how virtual hosting presents more security threats than otherwise. Sheesh! And the price of their server software licenses have gone up.

Corporations will continue to work with WAMP because they've got site-wide Microsoft licenses. The rest of us will use LAMP because it's: cheaper; more reliable; takes less time and effort to administer; and VMs will allow the easy migration of Windows services and apps to wherever they're needed.

-David

"Gbenga Abimbola" <gabimbola@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With Microsoft romancing with Zend Technologies, and
appreciating Open-Source applications (& even OS: Novel
SUSE Linux), it is only a matter of time before WAMP
(Windows Apache MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) beats the heck
out of LAMP (Linux...). Why? Consider the next paragraph

Very simple: Windows OS dominates the desktop; there are
more Windows professionals than Linux's professional.

So, ladies and gentlemen, if you specialize on WAMP and .NET,
you are set for life! Thank you Microsoft, thank you CodeGear.
Now you can see that if Microsoft and CodeGear create a temple,
the rest of the world will go there to worship!





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