RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)

Now that's where I take exception to those who hail The Gates as a "visionary". The guy is blinder than a bat. For how many years has Microsoft been selling Office for Apple? You mean to say that they could not port SQL*Server to another operating system? One thing that can be said of visionaries, and yes Uncle Larry NEEDS a good dose of this medicine as well, is that they don't box themselves in. Microsoft is so hung up on Windows that there entire being is held up by that one linchpin. Pull it out & the whole company falls into the abyss.

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>>>	Mind those references to the "older generation".  There 

Where do you expect SQL Server customers to run their databases?

Does Microsoft really have to perish for Linux to be successful? That sounds like the marketing drive of a certain company I know.

"It is not sufficient that I succeed, everyone else must fail"

Linux is ready for production because it is at the developmental stage of good Unix derivates circa 1995. And believe me, there was a lot of production Unix in 1995...that is the older generation talking...

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