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Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-here's-a-surprise dept.

richdun writes "Here is a study done by an independent research firm which claims that under certain circumstances, it is cheaper to develop applications and enterprise solutions for Windows than for Linux. They cite costs from more education, time developing, etc. Of course, the story is quick to state that the whole study was funded and commissioned by our favorite Redmond, WA based software giant. "

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  1. Re:This isn't totally off base by javatips · · Score: 3, Informative
    If you consider the productivity gained by using an IDE such as Visual Studio .NET 2003.

    You have intellesense statement completion, automatic code formatting and highlighting, and intelligent help that will pull full documentation on any statement you are typing with one click.


    You have the same thing with Java IDE such as Eclipse (free) or WSAD ($$$) or JBuilder ($$$). The Java IDE that cost $$$ will have the additional benefit of having wizards and views that speed up the creation and configuration of EJBs and other J2EE stuff (Eclipse has some of these too, but they still have a some way to go).

  2. Eclipse does all this by Decaff · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of these features are present in eclipse (www.eclipse.org) with Java.