From eWeek:
"Enterprise IT managers shouldn’t hesitate to look into the option of deploying open-source stacks on a Windows Server platform. For some businesses, this will truly be the best of both worlds."
I’ve always been intruigued by the possibilities of using open-source tools on Windows. Early on I was a huge fan of development tools like NAnt and NUnit, and this year I’ve spent a lot of nights and weekends getting up to speed on MySQL (which works fabulously on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP). It seems to me like there’s a chasm between between Windows developers and open-source tools and technologies built to make their lives easier, which always seemed like a pity to me.
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Firefox is another good example of this. I had the hardest time getting other devs to use it, let alone test against it. I always figured it was just a matter of familiarity, and a belief that microsoft would eventually make the app anyways.
It still amazes me how the Java development world is really a million miles away from the Windows development world. Most of the stuff Java developers use today is open source and has been for the last 3 years. All the way from the OS (Linux) to the development tools and frameworks (Eclipse, Spring…..).