Re: Software survey

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

gopat@iserv.net (Pat Mc Govern) writes:

> I'm doing my last school project!! Just a simple survey about your
> favorite web building applications:
> 
> What LINUX software would you use for e-commerce/web development
> applications? (ie.  favorite distribution, server, database,
> scripting language, html editor, even proprietary e-commerce
> development applications would apply).


%favorite = (

distribution => 'Debian',
server => 'anything nice and fast; first priority RAM, second HD',
database => 'MySQL',
scripting_language => 'perl',
html_editor => 'BBEdit (on a Mac; there\'s no better text editor)',

);


You forgot to ask about my favorite revision control system (CVS) and
my favorite inter-employee wide-separation cross-platform realtime
ascii communication and file interchange protocol (IRC).  That about
covers it :)

> If money is no object would you rather buy a proprietary
> e-commerce development tool or use open source tools? WHY ????

If money were no object, I'd buy a proprietary product and pay them
enough to open-source it!

> If you were familiar with Microsoft and Linux web tools, would you
> be more productive coding web pages on a Microsoft system (with
> its related software) or a Linux system with open source web
> tools?  WHY??

I am familiar with Linux web tools, and I'm familiar enough to
Microsoft to know that it's a painful, painful process to get such
an environment stable and doing what you want.  (At my last job,
our webserver ran on Win NT until one day the machine just crashed
and refused to come back up.  I recruited a workstation into being
an Apache replacement for it in about an hour.)
--
        Jamie McCarthy
        jamie@mccarthy.vg
 http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/