| A Trek into Open Source on Windows ... |
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| Written by Ken Task | |||
| Friday, 21 March 2008 05:16 | |||
http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/02/27/dominic-sartorio-on-spikesource-and-open-source-interoperability.aspx On the page referenced above, this clip ... "... last December, the Open Solutions Alliance (www.opensolutionsalliance.org) published a report (pdf) summarizing the results of its customer outreach efforts. One of the key findings was that customers want better open source and Microsoft interoperability, and moreover, they felt this was the issue that the industry has collectively done the least to address." Tried accessing the link that pointed to www.opensolutionsalliance.org and the PDF of the report and got nada. So, investigating a little (cause I really wanted to see that PDF!) , switched to "troubleshooting mode", brought up the terminal on the MacOSX laptop I was using and began ... below are the test ... ktaskg4pb-2:~ ktask$ nslookup www.opensolutionsalliance.org Well, DNS appears to be working. Let's see if I can ping the site by IP: ktaskg4pb-2:~ ktask$ ping -c 5 209.96.232.144 Yep, so at least the NIC is responding. How about a quick scan for port 80 ... thinking maybe the web site is just down for upgrading/etc. ... ktaskg4pb-2:~ ktask$ nmap -p 80 209.96.232.144 Interesting ... I see "icebits.com". Ok - let's follow that: http://www.icebits.com and I get a nice login screen for Centric CRM (customer relations management?!!) Too bad ... wanted to the "research" behind and about WISP some more. Tried Googling for WISP ... got hits for a resort, a knitting mag., a radio station, scented oil fragrancer, a reference to Wikipedia that defines the acronym as "Wireless Internet Service Provider". Even though Google is the most often used search engine on Internet today, WISP (the stack) doesn't seem to show on the radar! A quick comment about WISP ... the only thing open in WISP is PHP. Compare LAMP (the "P" stands for PHP, Python, and Perl BTW) to WISP and one can see there is greater flexibility in scripting languages for the stacks on the LAMP side. Still, attempting browser to a variety of options ... IP, CNAME, etc. results are the same ... nada. Finally do a NetCraft lookup for www.opensolutionsalliance.org and look what they are running: Visionary Systems 715 Middle Ground Blvd. Norfolk VA US 23666 209.96.232.144 Linux Apache-Coyote/1.1 30-Jan-2008 and one for SpikeSource itself: SpikeSource 1400 Seaport Drive Building 9 3rd Floor REDWOOD CITY CA US 94063 209.10.209.34 Linux Apache 10-Dec-2007 No info on Netcraft about www.icebits.com but ... sending a 404 one sees: Apache Tomcat/5.5.15 Hmmmmm ... those 2 "players" choose Apache on Linux for their web services. What does that tell you? Quite a change over a relatively short time period ... from ignoring to eradication (MS Tax) to attack (FUD) to partnering ... http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/economic.mspx All in all - I'd say that open source is "winning" ... if one is into "keeping score"!
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