Michael Dolan Dot Com

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Register: “Windows experiment meets the bottom line”

There are cases where this just makes perfect sense. I think the Linux ISV or open source apps/middleware community could use a dose of attention to the integration and ease of implementation across products. That’s clearly a strength of Microsoft. I’ve always been a fan of SQL Server and Visual Studio - for an average developer working on a small-mid sized project, it’s tough beat the rapid setup and time to live value. Now, those who know their way around could do better with a LAMP stack, but for the average programmer, Windows to Windows upgrades significantly lessens the transition costs.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/02/project_watch_eight/

Where was the horror typically associated with migration, where was the pain? I was expecting - not to say looking forward - to writing about the hair-tearing frustrations and incandescent rages attendant upon working with Microsoft’s community technology previews (CTPs) and early releases of new software. But it was not to be.

Apart from the software installation the project has been pretty much drama-free: the operating system hasn’t crashed, the database hasn’t crashed, stuff just works. As a developer, I am delighted the project has gone so well.