Interoperability
What is an interoperable Web server? At the user level, the Web is the Valhalla of interoperability from the browser point of view—thorny browser dependencies notwithstanding. A browser usually doesn't need to know what operating systems served the data it renders. A Linux Web server is perfectly capable of serving a proprietary Microsoft ActiveX control, but a Linux browser cannot run it.
As we ratchet down a notch, we begin to wonder how well Windows-based Web servers and Linux-hosted Web servers may play together as admin istrative targets, members of Web farms, or interchangeable units. We shall examine Microsoft IIS and Apache and its derivatives. These comprise the two main families of Web servers on Windows. IIS doesn't ...
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