>Of all people you should be looking at this as an opportunity. After all you program in C and I am sure you could develop your own web server. How can you resist peeking into how Apache works? Or even the Linux kernel?

That's exactly it - I don't care. You think I could build a Web server as powerful as Apache or IIS on my own? I don't think so. I don't want to, nor do I need to - the market is alreday full of web servers. Looking at the Kernel? What the heck for? I need an OS that works, not one that I can modify.

I'm a business developer, a tools builder and consultant. I don't need to waste my time poking around in other people's low level systems code.

>There is a lot of serious money going into Linux (Redhat has filed an IPO already) and VA Research (http://www.valinux.com) has received some heavy duty funding.

There's also been serious monetary backing for Java and look where that's at this point... not much further than a few years back before the money rolled in. All hype, no bite.



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