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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Sir, I feel compelled to point out that you're ignoring what I'm writing. What does web server architecture have to do with user applications? 99.999% of people that will be using my software will be running a Microsoft operating system. If I develop using C++ in Linux, then my software will not run on Windows. Hence, I loose 99.999% of my market. The other option is to spend double the development time to code for both systems. Of course, my rate of return will not be double.
So no, I'm sorry, there is no way that I'm developing user applications for Linux or UNIX at this time. End of discussion.
Some food for thought: How many of my restaurant point-of-sale systems do you think will I sell if the application requires Linux to run? None. I'd bet all of them would want to be able to run Microsoft Office on the same computer.
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Jerrek, you appear to be getting confused between browsers and operating systems. No-one is talking about writing for Unix as such, we're talking about writing code that produces good pages in web browsers. If you consider just Windows for a moment, yes IE is still the dominant browser but there are plenty of others. When you take all OSes and all browsers between them, I don't imagine IE's dominance is
quite so crushing. Not yet anyway.
A key issue I face is that we have to distribute financial information. If we want to do it on the web, then we have to ensure we do it in a way that doesn't disbar anyone. To deny someone access to that sort of information by knowingly designing the page to work with only certain web browsers would be legally dubious in the extreme. We
need a standards based approach to our web development.