Server comments

[Tom Smith]

Jim Bodkikns (Dakotacom) wrote:

>   I agree. Those are what I call appliances. (webservers etc). They
> should be kept. I guess I'm asking for an addition category. All of
> this can be done manually or course. But if I could select a 'business
> server or 'application server' as opposed to server (which I see as a
> much needed appliance install), it would make life easier.

The problem with that, I think, is what you call a "business server" or
"application server" may be different from what I think those things
are. There are HUGE gray areas with implementing something like that.

Even to have something like "web server" would create problems--may I
think a web server is Tomcat, or Zope, or (more traditionally) Apache.
There's just way too much ambiguity here. I personally think it's best
to have as much flexibility built in as possible.