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ok, you got me there

I guess my post was mostly to parody "baggins" was it? Who, like most open source zealots i see here, started out this articles first comment by naming windows users as suckers and sheep or whatever. Let's go back, get him to first answer where he gets this information. I use Windows because it's been rock solid for me. At work we use 40 servers from NT 4 to 2003 and I've SERIOUSLY never witnesses so much as a hiccup in 10 years with these exceptions: someone tried to make a registry hack and had no business touching it. An app was unfriendly with the API and caused a memory problem. Hardware Issues. That's it. We've had a very large DR running on SQL2000 for years now flawlessly. It's a great product and comes with OLAP and English query tools for a very reasonable price.
Red Hat sort of did tank there for several years, no? Not under, but not good. Novell bought SUSE..so what's that make them, open source gurus? We had Novell running at work for certain apps and I liked NDS but overall it was not an easy system and support was nothing to rave about. I'm not sure I'd pick SUSe with Novell anytime soon. Unix code is pretty clean. I've seen it. We had 3 different versions of Unix as well. Nice infrastructure machines. Programming to them is not easy. I'm not a systems programmer and have not used C for a quite a while. I reallylike the .NET framework. CSharp is awesome and very fun to code with. I can write games, web apps or enterprise distributed systems with the same code w/o it becoming overly complex in terms of the code, but not in terms of the end product. As complex as you need to go. I can use ansi C on my windows machine as well if I need to write code for other things but I just don't anymore.
XP doesn't come with much? Mine came with a robust webserver, middleware (MSMQ), networking capabilities such that I could host a domain and web site on my laptop. ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, J#, python, smalltalk...all can interoperate in teh CLR and that is too cool. And they are all free. Since a manly man codes in notepad et al. correct? I didn't name nearly all of the tools that come with XP Pro but some of the main ones. There are thousands of others i can download for free. Antivirus is free, antispyware is free, and they are very good products. AVG is excellent.
Oh well. I'm just a dumbA$$

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