>Mike, agreed.
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>You only have to consider that the Linux pbx market is growing at 23% compound, due to hit $9billion by 2009, to see that Linux is not seen as unreliable, unsupported or cheap and nasty any more. Companies are willing to base their entire telephony systems on it, followed by their e-mail systems which logically and naturally go with the pbx so you can have integrated e-mail/telephony/voicemail.
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>Then the head geek only needs to send an e-mail to the Financial Controller pointing out that "every phone call you make, every e-mail you send or receive is going via Linux and MySQL" to demolish any arguments against their further use. ;-)
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>But VFP on Linux- the killer is the EULA requirement for a development license for every instance not running on Windows. Even if you do have a customer running Ubuntu or whatever on workstations, the cost of a VFP development license makes php or python etc a far more likely choice.

My last company (well, I guess it was two companies ago) had started on the Linux migration. Email servers, file servers, etc. They also started to migrate towards Java, so I decided it was time to leave.

My last two companies have been all Microsoft shops. AD, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Windows all over the place. It made development with .NET a lot easier for me and I was able to incorporate "MS" features into my applications.