ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:23:32 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> True, and that's why it's such a big deal. They might also have plans
>> to make their Web site .NET-only. The BBC's technical department is
>> Microsoft Corp. You are paying Microsoft via your taxes, which is
>> unacceptable. There's a similar trend in American TV channels too.
>> Stop it now before it gets too messy. That's what the Defective by
>> Design campaigns is all about. We have been successful on the audio
>> front (to some extent), but Hollywood is harder to defeat. They look
>> at the anti-DRM folks as though they are mob, rebels.
>
> I put less faith in any organisation when I see it runs on .net (.aspx
> pages). For one thing, it means that for any site handling any real
> loads, they probably need 10 times the number of webservers for a
> start, this means they probably need 10 times the number of admins...
> so they're probably charging 10 times the RRP.
>
> In the case of the beeb, hell, I dont want to pay 10 times the TV
> licence. Leave it on Apache.
>
> One of the regular attendees at the SCLUG meetings is a technical guru
> at the beeb, working mainly on streaming protocols I believe. I hope he
> has a lot of influence there with the direction of the server software,
> sadly it's normally a middle management fuckup that destroys things.
>
Indeed it is. It's worth noting, though, that you cannot do reliable
streaming on IP anyway, so trying to move television into net space is
not going to work until we have proper 3-mode networking working, which
means that most current generation devices will need, at least, a second
interface in addition to the one they already have.
I agree with you on the cost stuff, I tend to avoid organisations which
are using aspx and the like for the same reasons; it also implies that
not only will things cost more, but they're more driven by political
concerns than they are by technical capabilities, which is typically
reflected in their products and services, too.
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