Are any of you using a WAMP platform for your web servers? We are potentially redesigning our website, and the vendor that has *ahem* been selected for us only develops for open source platforms (and we don't know Linux, hence the "W" in WAMP).
If so, any tips or pitfalls?
Thanks,
Britt
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I would stay away from WAMP for business critical operations if at all possible. While I do use it for some personal projects it can be unpredictable. If you want to stay a windows shop then I would make the business case to find a developer that develops for IIS.
-Rich
<double post - sorry>
I agree with all of the above.
Also - are you planning on hosting the entire website or just the WebAPI service? If you are just going to be exposing the service it <shouldn't> matter what platform the web developers use. You can happily host the API on your Windows stack and they can host and build whatever they want.
Also - you can run PHP or Perl on IIS6/7: http://php.iis.net/ so since you are already going to be installing Windows why bother with Apache?
Good luck!