John,

I think we are totally on the same page.



>Walter, as others have told me, perhaps April 2007 is not a good time to be trying to decide.
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>As for open source- I've said a number of times that I'd prefer to stay in the MS camp. That's a personal preference: looking at a few other options is technical curiosity that will hopefully underpin my personal preference. ;-)
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>Though I'd have to say that php looks really good and I can't help but note that the very latest consumer/small business devices (e.g. Linksys SPA400) have open source (Asterisk, Linux) firmware under the hood...