I really believe you do yourselves a great disservice by trying to promote
that type of thinking without providing some facts to support it (and I'm
not debating whether or not they exist).
It starts to make the project look like a consortium of basement tinkerers
and hackers with an axe to grind rather than a loosely structured
association of industry professionals with a wealth of experience and
expertise working towards a common goal.
For myself, and for our clients, I try to select the best tool for the job
every time, and to do it rationally.
The tools and the platform selection here seem reasonable. I think a case
can be made to support the selection it on it's own merits not simply
because the other guys are bad guys, have acted irresponsibly or hold a
different vision of where the profitability should come from.
Just a thought and a bit of constructive criticism from one trying to look
at it all with an open mind.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Gage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: security and access control features are a weak area
>
> >Now why would anybody want to use a vastly inferior product
>
> Vastly inferior is hyperbole.
>
> > that runs only
> >on a rather unreliable and insecure platform, capped by the fact that you
> >lock yourself into a pay-pay-pay cost spiral when yoou can have a
superior
> >product for free?
>
> People use Windows not because of Windows, because most people don't an
> operating system from a potting shed, but rather because of the
> environment. Their printer works with Windows (the HP 6100 does not and
> never will work with Linux). They have a lot of Quicken files they don't
> want to bother with transferring. It's all convenience.
>
>
> >Honestly, I can understand when people still choose one of the Windows
> >flavours as their desktop operating system. But I can't think of one
single
> >reason where NT would beat BSD or Linux as a server operating system
>
> Same thing.
>
> John
>
> P.S. I don't like monopolies, but reality is reality.
>
>
