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Re:Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. by anigbrowl on Thursday July 02, 2009 @03:57PM (#685057)
So why is Jeff Atwood using Windows instead of Linux to run his database server? Not complaining, but presumably it delivers something that the open-source alternative doesn't.
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Re:Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. by mattmcknight on Thursday July 02, 2009 @04:03PM (#685073)
He uses SQL Server, of course. The root cause is that Joel used to work for Microsoft. Awesome.
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Re:Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. by dmpayton on Thursday July 02, 2009 @04:33PM (#685119)
Not just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).
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Re:Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome. by smokinn on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:46AM (#685635)
And he spent a good chunk of his career as an evangelist for a Microsoft shop. (Not Microsoft itself but a "Microsoft partner")
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