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Originally posted by BenH
And here we come to the rub, let me guess, your a .NET developer. The same .NET that Gartner pointed out was a huge security nightmare.
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You guessed wrong
The company I work for writes enterprise level software with a large emphasis on portable code in strict C++ (mainly using the raw language and STL), that runs under both unix and Windows (NT line) operating systems. There's no hint of .Net in there and there's not likely to be with the current business strategy. The back-end (majority of the software) is completely platform independent and the UI is a split between platform independent web server code (runs on any web server, CGI based XML/XSL transform engine) and a Windows specific user application.
We're talking mission critical here in some cases which is why we have no customers requesting linux support. All the unix platforms are Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. Windows platforms are server level (2000, 2003 server, clusters, etc). Client side is partly whatever runs a browser (yes, we support Mozilla), and 2k/XP for the Windows app.
We have a strict rule of keeping 3rd party software to a minimum because of the support nightmare we have with them. Open source software has cost a fortune due to the complexities of getting their software fixed. They won't fix it, and why should they when we didn't pay for it and they're not getting paid either, so they expect us to fix it. Commercial software we've used comes with a maintenance contact, one call and a bunch of enthusiastic well paid developers get on the case and a fix can arrive next day. Same with Microsoft if you pay them enough on support, but consider how much it costs a highly paid developer to waste time trying to fix it themselves over many months (trust me, I've suffered the pain).
Gimp vs Photoshop...
Apart from Photoshop not being specifically "Windows", even Mac users would disagree that Gimp is the choice over Photoshop
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Though obviously if they're using Photoshop for way under what it's designed for, then there's a cost saving but the same could be said of picking 'Paint' over Photoshop (or even PaintShopPro). All depends what you're using it for, but it's not a fair comparison.
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Also you've failed to say why MS marketing department (which lets face it is the real sucess of the company) had NT 5 renamed to 2000...
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Who cares? It's marketing, and an inspired choice. It sold more software and makes me more money. I'd have a much harder time (and be worse off) working for a linux blinkered company rather than one who embraces all operating systems and doesn't have it in for anything "Microsoft".