Actually, you can get ASP for other webservers, like Apache. It is not
strictly tied to IIS anymore.
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Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
Sybase Developer's Network: http://www.sybase.com/sdn
"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message
news:39212a61.607496781_at_news.saix.net...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> >you are right about MTS locking you into Microsoft. However don't ASP
pages
> >also lock you into IIS?
>
> Of course it does, which is why I am currently using Delphi on NT for
> doing the dynamic web content side of things (like dunamic graphs and
> table from Oracle data).
>
> This means that I have at least a choice of web servers for doing this
> on NT (the platform chosen for this web system) and it allows me a bit
> more flexibility than ASP.
>
> ASP or IIS are not bad per se - however, when someone walks down that
> road they should know that Microsoft is owner and paving the way. I
> prefer a more open approach which gives me the choice of what to drive
> and at what speed, on such a road.. ;-)
>
> Billy
>
>
Received on Tue May 16 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
