On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > And if you go on mailing lists for those other products, > you don't find developers talking about what's used on what web sites, > and how that reflects on anything meaningful.
This isn't actually true at all, Dave. To give one high profile example, take Hotmail. Microsoft got a huge amount of shit for the fact that Hotmail ran on Linux (or BSD? I think BSD) with Apache. Sure, they bought Hotmail and that was the primary reason. But people kept saying "oh, Windows and IIS can't handle the load so they have to stick with BSD". There were plenty of tech articles about whether Microsoft could actually run Hotmail on Windows, how expensive it would be, etc. Finally, MS eventually moved it over but they had to put significant time and energy into the project. They even announced that they had moved it to Windows only to have to retract that statement a couple days later, admitting that some of the bits still ran on BSD. I seem to recall that MS totally fucked up Hotmail in the move as well but that could have been some of their other major screw ups. Eating your own dogfood is still an important concept in the tech world and I think you sell it short. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341604 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
