You bring up a good point about Oracle's relationship with IBM. For now everyone is pretending to play nicely and saying all the right things but I think Oracle sees IBM as a direct competitor.
I prefer Apache and have used it in most places but some places have a MS-only policy that requires the use of IIS. If I recall, JDE's move away from IIS (to the point to de-supporting) was driven (publicy at least) by the security questions around IIS. Something changed and IIS came back onto the MTR's as a supported web server.
FWIW, IIS webserver is basically a visual front end for the webserver concepts, all deriving from the original NCSA webserver specs. The concepts are the same with IIS and Apache, only the stability is different, and only then with large loads.
I guess I see the webserver as a commodity piece of software. Sites likes
www.ebay.com run IIS. I run Apache on Linux at home on my family website. I don't think it really matters from a technical perspective. I think what really matters is the point you raised about Oracle's continued support for IBM HTTP Server.
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Nothing wrong with IIS.
Depending on your OS you should have all IIS services already installed. IIS includes SMTP, Telnet, FTP, NNTP. You can (and should) disable all but the WWW publishing service.
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BOK - I would echo that last part - the only component that you would need is WWW. Leaving the other stuff active is just asking for a security hole. I set my three web servers up with IBM HTTP server because that is how I was trained by JDE to do the installation. Knowing how much love Oracle has for IBM, I have to wonder what they are advising customers to do now.
Gregg Larkin
JDE System Administrator (CNC) / North America
Praxair, Inc.
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