[swarnie]

Really simple.

I read the prerequisites of whatever software im asked to install and do what it says.

I'm not spending the next 3 years of my life trying to make some monitoring platform run on WebLogic i have other jobs to do in 4-8-12 hours.

[jabroni_salad]

this is one of the funniest recurring threads on HN. developers finding out what other developers are requiring from their customers. Bonus points for developers finding out that non-cloud solutions still dominate some industries.

[forgetfreeman]

Cloud's got nothing to do with it. The thought of standing up a windows box to serve anything other than profiles and user surveillance is simply foreign. Budget webhosting has been a thing for a long time and standing up a *nix VM is also no big deal. In 25 years in industry I never once saw an IIS server used in the wild. shrug

[swarnie]

I'm surprised by this, maybe its industry specific.

An 80:20 split of windows server to everything else has been pretty common in the areas I've worked both as a <10 day contactor and as a FTE.

[forgetfreeman]

Era may also be a major factor. When I was coming up through the ranks it was common wisdom, even in corporate windows-centric shops, that IIS was a vulnerability factory on par with sendmail.