Re: ASP support

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Quoting Monah Baki (mbaki_(_at_)_infoa_(_dot_)_com):
> I need to migrate from IIS 4.0 to apach or zeuse, however the customer 
> says that I need to have ASP support. I was wandering if I can use Sun 
> one active server pages from chilisoft 
> http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft, or if anyone has any other 
> ideas to support ASP.

Generally customers will describe what they want in terms of
what they know.

If my brakes squeal, I'll tell that to the mechanic.  If I acted
like most of our customers do, I'd tell him I need the squeal
to go away.

One answer to that might be a good greasing of the brake pads.
It *would* make the squeal stop.  That would likely be the wrong
answer.


You, as a professional, get to dig in a little and learn the functionality
that the customer wants.  You can weasel a bit and lower-case the ASP
and start to ask about it as pages using "active server" programming.

I've got a site where .asp kicks off the PHP stuff because the customer
believed that ".asp" was better and wanted it just for those letters.


- What does the customer want to achieve?
  They say "ASF" but they might just mean "pages that can use
  a SQL server to get information."
  They pay you so they don't have to know all this stuff.
- Can you provide that with non-proprietary methods?

If the customer wants to run a specific proprietary program,
then you might be just S.O.L.  Set them up with a Windows box
and charge them twice as much ("well, we have to run Windows
on its own network and dedicate a box to it").