Previously you hear a lot of news about cloud services (Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Live mostly…)
But what is available for you if you want to host or create your own web applications ?
Traditionally, you would use Open Source Operating Systems like Linux/BSD/Solaris and the Open Source Software (PERL, PHP, JAVA, AJAX, etc…). I know I did that in the past to save cost on everything (except your paycheck).
Wouldn’t it be good if you have access to a simple set of installers to kick start your development instead of spending precious time and effort on configuring stuff?
Or perhaps you came from an Enterprise background in the past (working for MNCs etc…) but decided to strike it out on your own. Don’t you miss those Enterprise tools ?
Now you can get them in a couple of simple installers.
Microsoft Web Platform Installer [installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework.]
Microsoft Web Application Installer [Graffiti CMS, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and phpBB]
Yes, FREE. Yes, you still can build mash-ups with Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Live Services with it!
You can read more about the announcement here.
Posted by fatguppy 
