By: Tony Gravagno

Tony Gravagno — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:59:48 +0000

Thanks for the comments Dick- everyone has a different experience and opinion and I welcome comments from all viewpoints. I just wanted to publish my thoughts in a place that’s easy to find rather than posting the same notes to CDP every month. As I said, I have no beef with WS2008. SysAdmin types can handle it. My objection is primarily with Vista as a workstation platform which is hostile to consumers and developers who need to support it. Based on the links I’ve provided (and there are many more if required) and the fact that Microsoft is anxious to replace it with W7, I think I have good grounds to stand on. Best as always.

By: dthiot

dthiot — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:44:52 +0000

Tony,Not to be contrary and I am by no means a Microsoft lover – Linux, Mac or any other platform hater but I have been running Windows Vista 64 for about a year. The lingering problem that I face at this point in time is a Cisco VPN client which Cisco has chosen not to develop. I run VMware Workstation constantly and if I need Win XP (only occasionally) I run my old system as a VM. However, I want to point out that since SP1 Vista has been very stable and plenty fast. We also run Windows Server 2008 and have done so for more than a year as well. While you need to learn how to work within the updated security model for either platform, WinSvr 2008 is stable too.You mentioned development platforms. For some, WinSvr 2008 is a great development platform. I run WinSvr 2003 as a VM machine on my system with SQL Server 2008, mvBase 2.1, jBASE 4, Universe and QM all installed. I have both VS 2005 and VS 2008 I also have mv.NET, CodeSmithTools and DotNetNuke running. It makes for a great dev system!Just my two cents.Dick

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