Re: COMMON's Town Hall

[steelville <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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