Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Mar 2009 23:25 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
After the iPhone's success with the easy installation of applications using the iPhone App Store, more and more companies have tried to implement similar application delivery models in other markets. The most recent example is Microsoft, who has launched a sot of app store for... Open source server software. Yes, you read that right.
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RE[3]: It's Pretty Simple Really
by segedunum on Tue 24th Mar 2009 12:22
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Member since:2005-07-06
"Cons: it requires MySQL, which Web PI doesn't install for you, and you'll have to manage/backup separately from the Web application."
Now let's ask ourserlves why that might be and ask ourselves a rational question:
If Microsoft provide an easy and supported way of installing a wide variety of software directly, with MySQL and/or Postgres as examples, a lot of which competes directly with Microsoft's own software and is available at zero cost (and is downloadable and configurable at zero cost now thanks to Microsoft) does anyone seriously think that product groups such as SQL Server are not going to get pissed? Afterall, they took two barrels to the head of WinFS in Windows and that was nothing like this.
RE[3]: It's Pretty Simple Really
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Wed 25th Mar 2009 02:16
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Member since:2006-07-14
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Wasn't sure if someone had written a plugin to replace Mysql with MSSQL ( the express version is available in the app store thingine). A quick google search reveals it requires a near rewrite of wordpress. Not the easiest thing in the world.
Something like xampp would be a lot easier for getting wordpress et all running open source on Windows.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
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2008-05-27
Your customers seem to be hinting at a missing block for the Web Platform: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/WordPress.aspx
"Cons: it requires MySQL, which Web PI doesn't install for you, and you'll have to manage/backup separately from the Web application."
If you want to replace LAMP, I guess you need M too
Edited 2009-03-24 08:06 UTC