filePro and Vista

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> Okay, much as I respect you, this smacks of pure FUD.

Well I guess it's just frustration. I could very easy keep myself and our 
Windows guy busy 24 hours a day fixing issues with friends and family's XP 
boxes. I'm really not exaggerating. I sucks when "everyone" who knows you has to 
ask you what is wrong with their XP computer. It was cool years ago to be able 
to fix problems in seconds once a month or so. Now, I'm in favor of licenses to 
use a PC. :) I guess we asked for it.

We still run freeBSD on our servers, except one that has to run SCO OSR5 because 
we have a Xenix-286 binary that we still have to run. We moved two workstations 
to Ubuntu since I was tired of dealing with them, but the rest of our 
workstations are 2000-Pro, and XP.

Since all our new development is happening in a Java-XML framework that is 
designed to have the business logic and the database separate from another, 
we're developing using CentOS-4.4 for the Tomcat server. Java just seems to run 
much faster on that platform, but the database is still running under freeBSD. 
Once Java 6 gets out and we can have a native version that is optimized, I'm 
guessing we'll move to pure freeBSD servers again.

My interest in OS-X is that almost without exception "everyone" in the open 
source world has a Mac laptop. I guess it's jealousy. Me, I'm typing this on my 
Gateway XP laptop that is remote desk toped into a dual PIII beige box XP at 
work. Never spent more than a hour in my entire life in front of a Mac. Even 
when I went to Utah for training a couple of weeks ago, everyone else had a Mac 
except the two guys from India and me and two of our developers.

So if I came on strong with FUD, I apologize. The best low cost tools for the 
job is what I'm looking for. The Novell and MS mis understand of two weeks ago 
has me very wary of how patient MS will be about slow Vista adoption rates.