Well, well... I wish to congratulate you! You're a fine piece of work, Mister AC. And what you're preaching is utter FUD.
I'm a C programmer, and I have 7 years of experience in my field. I can assure you that most proficient programmers I know use very basic editors, such as vi, pico or notepad. Is there a reason for this? Of course there is! You just don't use a fancy GUI to work out Kernel bugs (I wish the Redmond crew would acknowledge that).
Any serious coder will take simplicity and efficiency over subtle bugs and pretty pictures.
Cheap? Did you say cheap? Are you blind? Do you know how much an NT Server 50 client license is? Well it's a mere $7500. That's cheaper than the freely distributable, and downloadable unixes out there, now isn't it? You're going to pull out the "well, there's hidden costs." line, aren't you? Please flat out lie to me and say that you don't have to hire sysadmins to run your NT boxen. Oh hold on... I know! They automagically reboot themselves twice weekly, don't they!
Development... There are far more programs out for *nix systems than most people would believe. Furthermore, *nix's average time to market is substantialy lower than NTs, due to the sheer number of developers. Easier development on NT? (That's when it's not rebooting isn't it?;) ) I doubt your claims. Programs in *nix can be simple shell scripts (which can acomplish a great deal), perl programs, or compiled C programs. And last time I checked, it didn't take a genius to write a shell script. Better? That word rhymes nicely with "whatever".:)
Your last point, the one about secure WWW sites, 9 out of 10 sysadmins will tell you that your site is safer on a Unix box.
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Well, well... I wish to congratulate you! You're a fine piece of work, Mister AC. And what you're preaching is utter FUD.
;) ) I doubt your claims. Programs in *nix can be simple shell scripts (which can acomplish a great deal), perl programs, or compiled C programs. And last time I checked, it didn't take a genius to write a shell script. Better? That word rhymes nicely with "whatever". :)
I'm a C programmer, and I have 7 years of experience in my field. I can assure you that most proficient programmers I know use very basic editors, such as vi, pico or notepad. Is there a reason for this? Of course there is! You just don't use a fancy GUI to work out Kernel bugs (I wish the Redmond crew would acknowledge that).
Any serious coder will take simplicity and efficiency over subtle bugs and pretty pictures.
Cheap? Did you say cheap? Are you blind? Do you know how much an NT Server 50 client license is? Well it's a mere $7500. That's cheaper than the freely distributable, and downloadable unixes out there, now isn't it? You're going to pull out the "well, there's hidden costs." line, aren't you? Please flat out lie to me and say that you don't have to hire sysadmins to run your NT boxen. Oh hold on... I know! They automagically reboot themselves twice weekly, don't they!
Development... There are far more programs out for *nix systems than most people would believe. Furthermore, *nix's average time to market is substantialy lower than NTs, due to the sheer number of developers. Easier development on NT? (That's when it's not rebooting isn't it?
Your last point, the one about secure WWW sites, 9 out of 10 sysadmins will tell you that your site is safer on a Unix box.