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[B]You guessed wrong 
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.
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Interesting, and a little surprised that your not using Bison++. But not at all surprised that no ones requesting linux support. Its a technology thats coming rather than here. Hence the reason merryl lynch has it running on VMware and waiting for the release of 2.6 before deploying it fully. Likewise with the french and german governments
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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).
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Nice, if your developing a new product from scratch with only a speculative market and minimal funding, then MS and other closed source vendors couldnt care less so you have to do it yourself, which is impossible with closed source software.
As for the problems with open software, did it never occur to you to pay the developer a few thousand to fix your problems. Its how we got the load balancing program for our thin client solution.
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Gimp vs Photoshop... 
Apart from Photoshop not being specifically "Windows", even Mac users would disagree that Gimp is the choice over Photoshop  .
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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There are apparently things that the GIMP can do that photoshop cant and vice versa. I dont know art software or what they were using it for. Hell I was literally asked 4 hours before they had to make the decision, still the GIMP, currently running under windows but will be switched to linux met their requirements and made them very happy.
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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.
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Good for you, and the answer is because of the utter mess that is NT4. MS Marketing decided to rename it 2000 ( like windiscale became sellafield). They still had, and have still lousy sales. Hence the reason to go ahead with license 6 and why Linux is picking up their losses.
Regards,
Ben