It would be nice to experience a "new" wide open market like the one MS and IBM created in the early eighties. It would be nice to be "too busy" for tea and spin.

Aren't you at least a little excited about the prospect?


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>Have you ever noticed how the "VFP is dead", "you should change to .NET/C# (exclusivey)" advocates resist arguments favorable to moving to Linux?
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>A sweeping statement with no basis in fact.
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>I for one think Linux is a compelling alternative to Windows - and an environment that developers should consider. In fact, that is the REAL decision, isn't it? The choice is not whether to concentrate on Windows or Linux - as a development platform? If one chooses Windows, then .NET is the logical choice. Only then do you get to the question of which .NET language to choose. If OTOH, Linux is the choice, then the choice of tool(s) is far less certain. For sure, the answer does not rest with the whole "lets run VFP under Wine" option. Perhaps the choice will be the various .NET port projects that are underway. It is definitely more of a business decision as opposed to a technical decision. I for one do not see companies - en masse - eschewing Windows in favor of the Linux for the desktop. If there will be penentration - it will be on the server (db, web, app, etc.). Yes, there are compelling alterntives like open office. Still, to move to a linux desktop at this point - would be change
> for change sake. And lets face it, the support costs - at least today - will be greater than windows.
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>In the end, while Linux is worthy of a lot of investigation and possible adoption - current market conditions pretty much make Windows the only viable desktop development platform today. In a few years, this may (and will likely) change. So to prepare for that, just as I said about .NET 2 years ago, smart developers at the very least, investigate what Linux has to offer.