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2004-05-23 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by RWV 2004-05-23 2:44:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Den Beste's reaction seems appropriate.

Posted by someone 2004-05-23 7:56:20 PM|| 2004-05-23 7:56:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, no . . . next thing you know they'll be charging us to put our thoughts out there . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-23 8:02:44 PM|| 2004-05-23 8:02:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 BG and MS have a tendency to rewrite history. they started in the technical community Err! No they didn't. Most of the geeks I know were blissfully unaware of blogs until quite recently.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-23 8:30:42 PM|| 2004-05-23 8:30:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I invented Blogs.

Posted by Al Gore 2004-05-23 9:09:07 PM|| 2004-05-23 9:09:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ok Al, whatever you say ......(Should be in a home :)

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-05-23 9:37:34 PM|| 2004-05-23 9:37:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Phil, I think they're talking about people like Doc Searls. There's a large and thriving tech-centered blogging community, just as there's a large and thriving blogging community made up of people who write about things I'm not the least interested in. I occasionally read Doc and a few others.

I've got no grump with Micro$oft. As far as I know, this is the only blog that's actually Micro$oftish. It runs under IIS, using ASP, except when I get mad and try to rewrite everything in PHP running on Apache. The database started out as Microsoft Access, and did a good job until it reached about 30,000 articles. If I'd written a single line of code a bit differently, we might still be using it. It's a good product.

Not that I worship at the altar. We don't use SQL Server because we got timeout errors under load that we don't get with MySQL -- which is also free, unlike SQL Server. I find ASP and PHP to be pretty comparable, and I can actually run PHP under IIS, while I can't run ASP under Apache, at least not without laying out still more money.

I don't think Micro$oft will become a player in the blogging world because it costs more to run it than it does to run Linux and Apache. I had to lay out money for both hardware and software, whereas if I'd started on Linux/PHP, I'd just have had to pay for the hardware. I suppose they can offer an ASP-based service something like Blogspot. Hell, I could write it for them, and they've got people who can write better code than I do. But it's pretty hard to make any money competing with a free service.

Posted by Fred 2004-05-23 10:14:38 PM|| 2004-05-23 10:14:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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