HTML5 has certainly been making the rounds in the news lately. With Apple's on-going PR campaign against Adobe's Flash technology, comes mounting misconceptions about what exactly HTML5 is, what it can do, and what it means for end-users.
I hope to clarify several of the most glaring misconceptions over the next few posts. Today I'd like to focus on the most publicized and misunderstood issue of HTML5 video.
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When people think of open source, the things that immediately come to mind are products and tools that many consider to be polar opposites of Microsoft offerings:
I have a search I monitor in my Twitter client for “drupal“. As the awareness of the tool grows in traditional and new media (especially following the high-profile relaunch of whitehouse.gov), the relative backlash in the feed is startling.
I don’t really blame people, though. Drupal probably isn’t for them, and drupal.org and most Drupal advocates are doing a terrible job of setting expectations. So much so that I feel this trend of pushing Drupal onto everyone for everything is hurting Drupal’s reputation and perception.
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As anyone who has developed a Drupal site with devel module‘s query logging on can tell you, a Drupal implementation can quickly get out of control when it comes to hammering the database. Personally, I’ve seen Drupal run well over 300 queries to render a single page. In a hosting setup where the bottlenecks exist at the memory usage and MySQL levels (which refers to nearly all non-dedicated hosting packages), this can quickly become a problem.
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Microsoft has been proactive in their support of popular open source tools and technologies. Many of the tools Fenix employs can be deployed on Microsoft platforms in order to build on your existing infrastructure investments.
Learn More about Microsoft's official support for PHP on IIS.
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