[Xitami] Status of Xitami ??

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 09:48 PM 10/8/2004 +0200, Ted Leeuwesteijn writeth:
>Hello Thomas J. Hruska you emitted about Re: [Xitami] Status of Xitami ??
>
>>  I think that may be a major reason why users
>>won't leave Apache - they have too much time invested in it and don't want
>>to know that 30 seconds with Xitami or ProtoNova could have done the same
>>things they are currently doing.  It is more an issue of blind
>>leading/following the blind than anything else.
>>
>Some of us came that route before learning about Xitami.
>Hence that's why switched over right away.
>I was fed up with Apache AND MS server issues that's why i choose the Xitami 
>way,
>almost sounds like PNP software.
>guess what..... Hack it is!!!
>
>I am one of the fortunate ppl that doesn't depend on either linux or Windows.
>Xitami fits very well in the BeOS userfriendly envirement. Hardly any 
>noticeble problems with it.

Well, to be perfectly honest, there are zero web servers out there that are
"user-friendly."  By user-friendly, I mean that I can sit the average
computer user down in front of a computer and tell them to run ProtoNova,
or Xitami, or IIS, or Apache, or iWeb, etc.  If it were between Xitami,
ProtoNova, IIS, and Apache, ProtoNova has the best _chance_ of working for
the user the first time.  The fact you use BeOS suggests to me you are a
power user and fall into the "tinkerer" category.  Over the past 3-4 years,
I have learned again what it truly means to be a user of a computer.  I am
a programmer by nature, but studying user habits has been a trait of mine.
Tinkerer/power user/etc. and user-friendly have two totally different
meanings to me.

The only problem is, you can't sell/market "user-friendly" to users.
They've been sold that by Microsoft already...and got burned.  Users are
therefore very skeptical about the phrase "user-friendly".  Those who are
just joining this list or are new to the whole web arena might be scared
off by this.  And for good reason - no one, not even the almighty iMatix or
the supreme Shining Light Productions or even the amazing Microsoft has
mastered the concept of user-friendly when it comes to web servers.  Now,
some are more usable than others, for sure, but not one single web server
in existence is truly usable.

That said, if I were to take the four top usable servers and factoring in
market conditions, they would be, in order of preference:

1)  IIS.
2)  ProtoNova.
3)  Xitami.
4)  Nothing else.  Not even Apache.  I've reviewed every server in
existence and know nothing comes anywhere close.  (I did say iWeb back
there...the author contacted me about it once after I rated it the worst
web server in existence performance-wise and she admitted it was true but I
didn't need to be so blunt).

#2 and #3 could be argued over - both are basically the same thing in
regards to usability, but it is a moot point since IIS won this contest.
"But," you'll just say that, "you just said ProtoNova has the best chance
of being usable with the average user."  That's true, but the average user
isn't going to be looking for a web server because _none_ of the above are
usable.  I said the 4 _top_ usable servers, not the 4 _most_ usable
servers.  There's a big difference between the two.


Thomas J. Hruska
shinelight@shininglightpro.com

Shining Light Productions
Home of the Nuclear Vision scripting language and ProtoNova web server.
http://www.slproweb.com/