Web based security monitoring : Why

From: Drew Cutter (cutterd@attglobal.net)
Date: 10/29/02 

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:12:59 -0500
From: Drew Cutter <cutterd@attglobal.net>

Can someone give a reason why so many security monitoring , IDS , other
tools (example snort center) is written in php ? Doesn't Java
accomplish the same thing ? The requirement to use a web server is
beyond me (apache).

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