> > worth the time on the part of the developer to spend this extra time?
>
> I disagree. If you are wanting to hit a particular market with a
> product, should you provide the extra time to provide the product in
> something that in cross platform? Although MS has cornered the market
> with it platform, I am seeing more and more distributions of the
> Unix/Linux workstations in Enterprises and other countries. So if you
> were serious about producing something that developers would want to
> use in their production and would want to promote to other developers,
> wouldn't restricting the product to one operating system hinder you
> marketability?
Perhaps, perhaps not. It remains to be seen whether it's a sensible business
move for any given product to ensure that it's cross-platform. It may be the
case that for a given product, the cost of cross-platform development may be
lower than the benefit derived from people using those platforms buying your
product. The reverse may also be true.
> Wow, that is great, good for you! I have had similar results, but only
> after Windows 2K/Windows XP came out.
Well, it's been about four years since Win2K came out, hasn't it.
> By the way, if you wanted to use Windows XP for developing web
> applications do you realize that IIS will only allow one instance
> of a web server? That means that you would have to go with something
> like Apache HTTPD in order setup multiple web servers on different
> ports. BTW, Windows 2K still allows multiple http servers.
Yes, I'm well aware of that. I'm running Windows Server 2003 on my laptop.
Before that, I ran Windows 2000 Server on it. I also run Apache 2, just
because I want to know how to configure it. Windows XP isn't intended for
use as a production web server, so I'm not surprised that it doesn't let you
run more than one virtual server.
> I always figured that developers developed on these platforms because
> a greater flexibility to create "Cross OS Platform" applications.
What percentage of developers using those platforms develop cross-platform
applications?
> Plus I have always found that Linux provides less stress on hardware
> while it is running. Plus, I am able to always have at my disposal code
> in the back end of the applications to tweak what I see necessary in
> order to create more robust applications both web and desktop.
Neither of these are issues that I've faced during my web development
career.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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