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Unix Operating Systems
Unix is a computer operating system designed to be used by many people at the same time and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system
for servers on the Internet, but no longer the sole operating system used to run servers. Windows and Linux are other popular operating systems to run
Web servers. Most larger and professional sites are UNIX based.
There are many reasons to host your e-business applications on UNIX servers.
Security UNIX was initially designed as a multi-user multi-process platform for interconnected computers. Many security problems have been fixed
in the course of 35 years of development since its inception in 1969. Unix is generally considered more secure than NT.
Stability Unix systems generally offer stability and long uptimes while NT needs periodic rebooting to get rid of the random junk that running
the system has left over.
Scalability UNIX systems are available from simple PC's to giant SMP systems (Symmetric Multi-Processor). Benchmark tests have shown that Unix
outperforms NT in terms of salability.
Open Standards UNIX has been built on open standards, and it opens the door for any vendors who wants to develop applications.
Linux Operating Systems
Linux is an open source operating system within the Unix family. It was initially a freeware clone of UNIX for 386-based PC computers. Now it runs on
many different hardware platforms including Intel, Sparc®, PowerPC, and Alpha Processors. Linux consists of the Linux kernel along with many utility
programs. As a low-costing alternative to Unix and NT, Linux offers many benefits of Unix operation system:
There are many reasons to host your e-business applications on Linux servers.
Security Like UNIX, Linux was designed as a multi-user multi-process platform. It inherited many security implementation from Unix implementation.
Stability Like Unix, Linux systems generally offer stability and long up times while NT needs periodic rebooting to get rid of the random junk that running
the system has left over.
Scalability The salability of Linux is very impressive. It is reported that Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 200 million queries
a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime.
Open Standards and Open Source Linux is an open source operating system and any individual developers or vendors an contribute to develop of
the operating system or applications.
Windows NT
All ERP and CRM software from major vendors run on Windows NT. The major reasons choosing Windows OS for your e-business applications is that
you want to implementation Microsoft e-business solutions. Microsoft ERP and Microsoft CRM work well with other MS technologies for customizing
e-business software.
Active Server Pages (ASP)
Active Server Pages (ASPs) are Web pages that contain server-side scripts in addition text and HTML tags. Server-side scripts are processed before
the pages are sent from the Web Server to the Web browsers.
Microsoft DATABASES - It's much easier to integrate Microsoft products with MS SQL server than with Oracle and other databases.
.NET Support - ASP.net is the next generation of Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP), a feature of their Internet Information Server (IIS).
ASP.net supports code written in compiled languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, and, it features server controls that can separate the code
from the content.
CDONTS - CDONTS stands for 'Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server' and it’s a Messaging Component comes along with Windows NT/2000.
Third-Party ASP Components - Apart from the default components from Microsoft, E-business software from Microsoft works with third-party ASP
components such as ASP Upload, ASPImage, ASPjpeg, ASPEncrypt and etc.
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