Ecommerce : Performance Analysis of eCommerce Systems on Windows Server, IIS, ASP, FreeBSD, Apache, PHP with MySQL

This book inspects two different web server solutions. One is Windows solution that consists of Windows Server 2003, IIS and ASP and the other one is a open source solution consisting of FreeBSD, Apache and PHP. The both solutions had the database MySQL as a common component. The survey identifies various factors that play a part when choosing one of the solutions. Open source users prefer performance, security and costs of software while Windows users prefer required knowledge, usability and compatibility.