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Guy Kawasaki interviews Steve Ballmer

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Interesting quotes from Steve Ballmer when asked what they would do with Yahoo’s PHP apps if Microsoft does buy Yahoo:

So I’m quite sure when all is said and done, we’ll be, you asked ‘what are you going to do with those PHP applications’, I’m sure a bunch of them will be running at high scale and in production for a long time to come. I think there’s going to be a lot of innovation in the core infrastructure, beyond what we have in Windows today, in asp.net, beyond what you see in linux & php today, and beyond time probably most of the applications on the Internet will wind up being rebuilt and redone…. but for the foreseeable future, we will be a PHP shop, if we own Yahoo as well as an ASP.NET shop

We have put a lot of attention in making sure that PHP applications run well on Windows Server … For those of you who do have PHP skills, we’re going to try to make Windows Server the best place to land PHP applications in the future as well.

You can watch Kawasaki’s interview of Steve Ballmer here.

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Windows Server Web Edition, now Enhanced

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Microsoft recently announced a new edition of Windows Server, aimed at customers providing web hosting and web applications. For several years there has been Windows Server 2003 Web Edition, which is a crippled version of Windows Server with a lower price tag for offering simple web server functions. Realizing that this was not a compelling offer for many web-centric companies considering a Microsoft hosting platform, they have created Windows Server 2003 Web Edition Enhanced.

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The big changes in Web Edition Enhanced over the plain old Web Edition are higher limits on physical resources and the capability to install SQL Server. Web Edition allows a maximum of 2 CPUs while Enhanced ups that to 4, as well as increasing the max RAM from 2GB in Web Edition to 4GB in Enhanced. Keeping with a web-server focus, Enhanced cannot be an Active Directory controller or print server.

As a Microsoft Hosting Partner, we are now offering Server 2003 Web Edition Enhanced. Feel free to contact us for info.

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Microsoft Improves PHP Performance on Windows

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I was surprised to read this article from Redmond Developer News, which describes Microsoft’s partnership with Zend. Zend is probably the most influential company driving PHP development and performance. Most large PHP websites we see are running on a *nix server platform because performance on Windows has historically been abysmal. But that may now change:

“A lot of PHP development happens on Windows,” says Mark de Visser, Zend’s chief marketing officer. “However, most deployment happens on Linux. Why? Because PHP just doesn’t run very well on Windows. That was something that Microsoft didn’t like and that we saw as a problem. So, we got together with the aim of making sure that PHP had equal performance on Windows as it has on Linux and Unix.”

Zend is claiming improved Windows performance of between 200 percent and 300 percent overall with Zend Core 2.0.

It is good to see collaboration on PHP from Microsoft. But I’m sure they will still be touting their web development platforms just the same.

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