From a Venture Capitalist PoV - Never! Unless you gain something out of it (A competitive advantage, reduced cost, etc.)
From a Dev PoV - If everytime you need to make a change you dread it because it means many sleepless night debugging some archaic code, you need to refactor the whole thing (Which may involve complete re-write if everything is so badly designed)
From a QA PoV - Right on! More stuff to test, re-write every week!
From a Management PoV - Somewhere between those lines, you will find your answer.
IMHO, the author is wrong about Xeon going into Pro Macs... Core 2 Duos for the Low/Mid Range Pro Macs with Core 2 Extremes for the High-End Pro mac is much more likely...
My 2 Cents
- Windows Longhorn is only 32-Bit OS For Now and will perhaps possibly have a 64-bit support in the future.
- Windows Longhorn will need a DX9 Compliant Video Card to run.
- Windows Longhorn doesn't come with any advanced development tools but Notepad ( Ultimate for HTML )
- Windows Longhorn will have the Paladium Stuff in order to be secure. ( Probably won't be anyway but... )
- Windows Longhorn will be easy to install / upgrade
- Windows Longhorn come only in a 1-Language Deal
- Windows Longhorn cannot support a Heavy Server Load.
- Windows Longhorn will cost about 500$ US to Buy one license, and you haven't got any software on it.
- Windows Longhorn will cost 130$ to Upgrade.
- Windows Longhorn is completly closed-source and you can't contribute to it, because Microsoft doesn't want people like you and me to look at the code and correct problems that can possibly arise.
- Windows Longhorn doesn't have any advanced multimedia editing software except for the Popular Sound Recorder.
A Look on the Apple Mac OS X
- Mac OS X is a 64 bit OS Partially and probably next Version a Full 64 Bit OS.
- Mac OS X need a OpenGL Compliant Card ( About every card sold by Apple since their G3 are OpenGL Complliant )
- Mac OS X come with Project Builder for Free, allowing me to Program and all my stuff without buying many costly licenses from Microsoft.
- Mac OS X doesn't need Paladium, because it is based on UNIX, which is already something I thrust much more than Windows.
- Mac OS X is easy to install.
- Mac OS X can change language at will.
- Mac OS X can be a Server OS natively supported by Apple ( Appache Web Server, MySQL Database Server, File Server, Mail Server, etc... )
- Mac OS X cost 279$ US to get a 5-License Bundle
- Mac OS X always come with the Mac you just bought and will only cost 129$ to Upgrade.
- Mac OS X is Part Open-Source under GPL, so you can participate in the Development by contributing to the Darwin Projects
- You got many Software to do Multimedia Work ( Edit, Create QuickTime, DVD, Images, etc... all due to Apple Software Engineers or Open-Source ) that are optinal in the OS X Install.
- Everything displayed in a Windows in Mac OS X can be saved as a PDF.
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From a Venture Capitalist PoV - Never! Unless you gain something out of it (A competitive advantage, reduced cost, etc.) From a Dev PoV - If everytime you need to make a change you dread it because it means many sleepless night debugging some archaic code, you need to refactor the whole thing (Which may involve complete re-write if everything is so badly designed) From a QA PoV - Right on! More stuff to test, re-write every week! From a Management PoV - Somewhere between those lines, you will find your answer.
IMHO, the author is wrong about Xeon going into Pro Macs... Core 2 Duos for the Low/Mid Range Pro Macs with Core 2 Extremes for the High-End Pro mac is much more likely... My 2 Cents
A Look on the Microsoft Windows Longhorn.
- Windows Longhorn is only 32-Bit OS For Now and will perhaps possibly have a 64-bit support in the future.
- Windows Longhorn will need a DX9 Compliant Video Card to run.
- Windows Longhorn doesn't come with any advanced development tools but Notepad ( Ultimate for HTML )
- Windows Longhorn will have the Paladium Stuff in order to be secure. ( Probably won't be anyway but... )
- Windows Longhorn will be easy to install / upgrade
- Windows Longhorn come only in a 1-Language Deal
- Windows Longhorn cannot support a Heavy Server Load.
- Windows Longhorn will cost about 500$ US to Buy one license, and you haven't got any software on it.
- Windows Longhorn will cost 130$ to Upgrade.
- Windows Longhorn is completly closed-source and you can't contribute to it, because Microsoft doesn't want people like you and me to look at the code and correct problems that can possibly arise.
- Windows Longhorn doesn't have any advanced multimedia editing software except for the Popular Sound Recorder.
A Look on the Apple Mac OS X
- Mac OS X is a 64 bit OS Partially and probably next Version a Full 64 Bit OS.
- Mac OS X need a OpenGL Compliant Card ( About every card sold by Apple since their G3 are OpenGL Complliant )
- Mac OS X come with Project Builder for Free, allowing me to Program and all my stuff without buying many costly licenses from Microsoft.
- Mac OS X doesn't need Paladium, because it is based on UNIX, which is already something I thrust much more than Windows.
- Mac OS X is easy to install.
- Mac OS X can change language at will.
- Mac OS X can be a Server OS natively supported by Apple ( Appache Web Server, MySQL Database Server, File Server, Mail Server, etc... )
- Mac OS X cost 279$ US to get a 5-License Bundle
- Mac OS X always come with the Mac you just bought and will only cost 129$ to Upgrade.
- Mac OS X is Part Open-Source under GPL, so you can participate in the Development by contributing to the Darwin Projects
- You got many Software to do Multimedia Work ( Edit, Create QuickTime, DVD, Images, etc... all due to Apple Software Engineers or Open-Source ) that are optinal in the OS X Install.
- Everything displayed in a Windows in Mac OS X can be saved as a PDF.