Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:09:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: tedm@toybox.placo.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) Cc: David <freebsd-questions@gv.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Front Page extensions ??? Message-ID: <200510031309.j93D97oQ024980@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEICFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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> > > We do it on Solaris not on FreeBSD, but it's no big deal - we put all > the FP users on a single server and everyone else on a server > without FP loaded. After all if the FP server gets hacked due to > FP extensions, what is the customer going to say? They demanded > the FP extensions in the first place! > > Keep in mind also that a great many FP users that THINK they need > FP extensions on the webserver in actuality DO NOT. Microsoft does > a lot of work to blur the two because they know that some ignorant > people will actually go lay out the coin for a Windows server just to > run FP. But our observation is the vast majority of users use FP > as a page-creation program and never use any of the FP extensions, > or simply use very basic ones like a web-to-email page that can > easily be duplicated with CGI. If you teach them to use FTP from > Front Page to upload their pages, rather than Microsoft's icky > proprietary thing, they are just as happy either way. > Ted Exactly right. Basically we do the same and usually after a while they drop the MS server and consolidate on the UNIX (FreeBSD) server without Front Page. ////jerry
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