Re: [PLUG] LBF (Linux Business Forum): Top Arguments FOR and AGAINST using Linux in Business

["Matthew Ozor" <matt@ozor.net>]

You guys are missing the points ..

Microsoft Software
*web server
*SQl
*ASp

Cost a mint

I developed my web site using
Windows Xp-Apache, MySQL, and Php, of course I didnt pay for XP :-)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <paul@dpagin.net>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] LBF (Linux Business Forum): Top Arguments FOR and
AGAINST using Linux in Business


> >
> >
> >It's not astronomical. :-) Apache on Win32 is free. I beleive there is a
> >version of MySQL for Win32, also free. You pay for NT (well, these days
> >Win2K - few hundred bucks). Dunno if PHP is available for Win32, or how
> >much it costs.
> >
> >The costs come in administrative time.
> >
> Yes, PHP works on win32.  I have a laptop running WinXP and
> Apache/PHP/MySQL.  Part of my idea is to promote open source software
> apart from Linux as well as on Linux.  (The laptop also runs Red Hat 7.3.)
>
>
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