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Re: [cobalt-users] ASP Support
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ASP Support
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Aug 20 08:08:34 2003
- Organization: BRTNet.org
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I would like to know if is there a program that supports 100% of ASP that a
> windows server does.
No, because some ASP functions require services the underlying OS provides. I
haven't kept up on ASP since I was at Cobalt, but during sales calls, we
would say Chili!soft (now Sun ONE ASP) supported about 97% of all ASP
functions. Things unavailable were custom COM objects written in Visual
Basic/C/etc or services like MTS which were provided at the OS level. But
VBScript was ok, etc.
Chili!soft used to license the Microsoft ASP engine, thus their high
compatibility. When I met the product manager at Java One this year, he said
their rewrite was complete, and they now no long use any Microsoft code. The
engine is written to Microsoft's ASP "spec" though...