[CLUE-Talk] PHP vs ASP leads to a call for action to the next revolution

[Grant Johnson]

In the latest Netcraft survey, a vulnerable version of PHP (there was a 
recent security fix for file uploads) was found on 8.4 million servers. 
  Compiling PHP into Apache takes extra work.  As a comparison, IIS has 
only 11 million servers (no comment on security vulnerable numbers, but 
has been high when tested in the past).

With Apache at 55% and IIS at 34% with Other being the 11% left, what 
will it take to make IIS an "also ran?"  There was a time not so long 
ago where PHP as ana Apache module outnumbered IIS.  How can we make 
this a reality again?

MS has decided that we are the enemy and will do anything they can to 
destroy us.  They are even pushing for legislation that would in effect 
outlaw Open Source Software (the SSSCA).

Time to fight back the way that MS claims to, but OSS really can, 
innovate.  What is needed to make OSS win?  What would set us enough 
above NT to make CTO's sit up and take notice?  IBM and Sun have adopted 
Linux.  It is legitimized.  Now, it has to be so far superior that no 
amount of marketing hype can make a dent.  It must do things that MS 
hasn't even dreamed of yet.  Things that would be difficult to "embrace, 
extend, and extinguish."

We are on the eve of a new era in computing.  Bandwidth is here (dark 
fiber is just waiting for an application) open standards can now 
propagate across the net with or without a big corporation behind them, 
and the wild west has settled a bit.  We are in that period between the 
bandits and every man for himself of the wild west and the drudgery of 
every day metropolitan life.  Now is the time to become the next revolution.