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RE: Right tool for the Job
I agree with you - I have never seen MS as evil, and I think it serves very well for enterprise level applications (I am writing this from work on my MS computer).
I was a little more interested in people's personal use, since I can go to slashdot for IT professionals' [evangelical] Linux opinions. :-)
And I more than agree with you that the OS zealots are shooting themselves in the foot. I think Linux has a reputation as the user base being nerdy acne ridden nut jobs because of those that cry that MS is the evil empire and only through Linux can you find salvation. The Linux community needs normal, moderately tech-savvy people showing people the benefits that lay therein.
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Right tool for the Job
I have never been much of a "camp" man in terms of operating systems. I work (as a vendor...didn't drink the kool-aide yet :) for Microsoft, and of course, I have to use EVERY product that they ever created everyday. Their life here, really depends on the integration of every single office widget they ever dogfooded out the door. That gets annoying.
Then of course, since thats who keeps the rain off my head, my linux friends DRILL me all the time for being satan's sexxual playtoy and my Mac frieds espouse the brilliance of OSX and such, and how much the vista beta's look JUST LIKE IT.
And honestly, I don't really get the argument. Any of it. I have a mac at home, and run it and vista in parallels, works fine. I have a older box that I use as a local and test server for small projects that runs linux / apache, and my paid for server is all apache. But I run sites at work on IIS. Which is not always that fun. And I've never even tried to take a site off IIS and run it on an apache, (that probably would work out okay, but no the other way around! Whack!)
Anymore though, procs are powerful enough, ram CAN BE numerous enough and disk space, forget about it. there is no reason why any decent nerd can not run all three...or throw Ubuntu on there, cause its free in the above criteria. Sometimes, some things are better than others...depends on the task. Good luck getting after a 3/4 inch lug nut with a solder sucker.
What I mean by right tool for the job, really has to do with the solution you are trying to create or provide. If someone comes to you with a chunk of money and a SQL array, you can kiss that cash goodbye if you say, "sorry dude, its Oracle, or you are a gay."
Some clients have bulky legacy systems that require bulky legacy hacks. It might suck, but the omni nerd gets stuff done!
Some might say it would be such a huge hassle to learn and use the top 3-5 OSs, but they really arent; THAT different, and with a few o'reilly e-books on hard type languages, their forms and functions become very similar, its just a small difference of syntax (dialects) and getting used to the layout of the GUIs. It is hard...still, can be very daunting.
But I think getting everyone thinking about ALL the features of the main OSs is the only real way to work towards a global, or at least communal consensus on OS standards, or even a standard OS, that fits most everyone's needs! Only if we can remove ourselves from the polemics of debate, and "hooray for our side" mentality that has governed to OS debate will we really be able to positively move towards the ultimate, and correct answer to the big OS problem in the future.
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