4.2cmsWorks on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft has the Microsoft Windows Server product line and cmsWorks is able to run on these.

Using Microsoft Windows as hosting OS for cmsWorks

cmsWorks runs on a variety of different types of operating systems, Microsoft Windows (Server) is one of them. The reasons are

• Administrator used to Microsoft Windows should be able to run cmsWorks without having to learn new operating systems
• Supported JVMs for Microsoft (OpenJDK)
• The underlying Database of the cmsWorks community edition (MariaDB / MySQL) is freely available on Windows
• cmsWorks works with any webserver, especially with the Microsoft IIS-server, too

In fact, the most development of cmsWorks-sites is done using Microsoft Windows as the programmers OS. The deployment of finished programs and modules is nothing other than it is on other operating systems: Simply compile / release the files and administrate the server.

Despite the operating system, be it Microsoft Windows or some other operating systen, some security issues have to come into consideration using cmsWorks, see cmsWorks and security.