Re: [OpenBD] OpenBD IIS - "Coming Soon"?

['Alan Holden' via Open BlueDragon]

I totally agree with your opinions! However, rational decision-making has never been a major component in software adoption or market share. ;-] MS & third parties support Windows as a service platform because people CHOOSE to employ it as one, perhaps not because it's their most secure or otherwise wisest choice. Microsoft sells server OS's, and folks license them. That much makes sense. Users & Admins probably like the more consistent placement of component & application resources (which makes installations easier), and/or they're more comfortable with Windows' GUI clicking than a command-based UX - or even Webmin's GUI clicking. All that said, OpenBD is not about "more sales". It's a gift to the open community. It would be NICE to include the correct connector and configuration for IIS in a distro; but it's not something that AW needs to do. I had a conversation with Jordan on this very subject a few weeks back. His existing OpenBD/Windows installer is a bit dated now. He totally agrees with the need, but is up to his solar plexus with real work right now. So an alternative is to dig back through this Google Group archive, and curate the threads from folks who successfully connected their own IIS servers to OpenBD - and hopefully were nice enough to circle back and tell the rest what little tweaks did it. @Alan, I think that's what you meant when you said "then help us". Let me see what I can find. Al Holden On 4/2/2015 10:53 AM, Alan Williamson wrote: We did have a wiki ... but it got abused with spam, so we just killed it.  The majority of the information in it we did transfer to the manual. so if people want to give us content for the manual we will happily and gratefully receive it, and attribute your contribution so the world may know your greatness. Our official support for OpenBD does not include Windows.   In our experience, the vast majority of people simply don't use Windows as a frontend webserver; it doesn't make any sense.   They are harder to secure, more expensive to run if you are in the cloud (Amazon/Google/Rackspace) and as can be seen here, harder to setup.   Life is too short for that sort of nonsense. On 02/04/2015 13:42, Mats Stromberg wrote: Maybe Jordan could pull something together again for OpenBD on Windows. My self is not using windows besides the Installer i did for/with OpenBD.Local -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openbd+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.