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Re:Is The Microsoft Stack Really More Expensive? by etherealG on Monday September 07, 2009 @11:21AM (#809266)
take a look at the hosting cost on something like slicehost.com for a server. add in bandwidth costs to your server costs. does it still seem better to be developing on windows?

also, what are you charging your customers if 20 minutes or your time is worth $100, that's impressive. I wish I worked for a microsoft platform company so that customers would be willing to pay that much for a simple service.

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Re:Is The Microsoft Stack Really More Expensive? by jasonkester on Monday September 07, 2009 @12:02PM (#809333)
That's actually what I imply above. Given that we pay $800/month for rack space, power and bandwidth, and would do so regardless of our development stack, the extra $100/mo for the luxury of developing in C# is just noise.
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