me included I don;t have the time/energy/desire to keep fighting the fight, SQl Server and .NET it is
Too late. PHP is already overtaking the Internet, with a big assist from
Perl...
i5/OS's, includiong the iBox (the boxes that have i5) (I like it!) will
continue to thrive, albeit somewhat "assimilated" into the more generic
hardware. Makes sense from IBM's perspective, which is also assimilating
the benefits of all the open-source quality soft platforms and tools and
applications....
Rumor has it that Soltis' biggest regret with the i5 was deciding not to
incorporate a GUI. Of course they continued the decision way past viability.
Where I work I've pushed PHP for awhile but got into it too late myself
to make too much a splash, and so now the i-programmers are learning
dot-Net. For the long term, I think PHP has more future for
presentation, but I'll be learning that anyway.
Meantime, looks like Linux is pushing its way in by way of a new Cisco
device and the PC/"server" guys will have to learn it. There's already a
net management application running on a Linux box watching over the WAN...
So be not deceived. God is not mocked. Microsoft will fall from the high
places, and none shall help him. :-) (Sorry couldn't help it)
--Alan
