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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


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