Submitted by wimpy drupaller (not verified) on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 18:23.
It's because more people are deploying Drupal on WAMP and WIMP stacks, and because on Drupal.org there is a horrible dearth of organized, actually helpful information about running Drupal on Windows, whether WAMP or WIMP. Mostly, when one tries to find documentation, seek help in IRC or look to the forums, one of two things happens:
1) Some variant of the "I hate Windows" thing - eg "I wouldn't touch Drupal on Windows with a ten foot pole. Sorry, can't help you," or "only NOOBS use Drupal on Windows"...
2) The searcher finds 10,000 unanswered threads on how to do some simple thing, so they look outside Drupal.org for answers.
It's no fun running open source software without the benefit of the open source community [you might as well run Joomla]. Nonetheless, huge numbers of businesses run Windows, so a growing number of shops really would like to deploy on WAMP or WIMP and take advantage of some of the economies to be found there. MS is doing very interesting things with PhP on IIS7 and is even [gasp] attending DrupalCamps and DrupalCons.
So, maybe your site is one of the few places WAMPY/WIMPY Drupallers can go for information, NOOBs or not. Thanks for putting the information out there. Someone's gotta do it.
It's because more people are deploying Drupal on WAMP and WIMP stacks, and because on Drupal.org there is a horrible dearth of organized, actually helpful information about running Drupal on Windows, whether WAMP or WIMP. Mostly, when one tries to find documentation, seek help in IRC or look to the forums, one of two things happens:
1) Some variant of the "I hate Windows" thing - eg "I wouldn't touch Drupal on Windows with a ten foot pole. Sorry, can't help you," or "only NOOBS use Drupal on Windows"...
2) The searcher finds 10,000 unanswered threads on how to do some simple thing, so they look outside Drupal.org for answers.
It's no fun running open source software without the benefit of the open source community [you might as well run Joomla]. Nonetheless, huge numbers of businesses run Windows, so a growing number of shops really would like to deploy on WAMP or WIMP and take advantage of some of the economies to be found there. MS is doing very interesting things with PhP on IIS7 and is even [gasp] attending DrupalCamps and DrupalCons.
So, maybe your site is one of the few places WAMPY/WIMPY Drupallers can go for information, NOOBs or not. Thanks for putting the information out there. Someone's gotta do it.