Subj : Favorite *nix IDE
To   : Nightfox
From : art
Date : Wed Jan 27 2010 20:07:00

  Re: Favorite *nix IDE
  By: Nightfox to art on Tue Jan 26 2010 15:40:36

Hi Nightfox,

 > I've been using Notepad2 to write my SBBS JSOM stuff.  Notepad2 was written

I've heard of N2 but not tried it out yet, I'll have to remember that one.
Cream/win32 itself is fairly hefty as it is VIM + more, it actually takes
longer than visual studio 2010 to load up on my machines(!)

 > I'm sorry to hear that.  ;)  I don't mind working in a company that uses
 > Microsoft stuff (I do think they have good products), but what I don't
 > particularly like is the "war" that Microsoft has against pretty much
 > everyone

I agree with you there--Server 2008, Windows 7, and SQL 2008 for example are
rock solid products. As a partner we do get access to beta products, and even
the stuff like the Windows 7 Technical Preview was amazing (bear in mind that
this was 6-12 months before even the Open Beta). Good quality software is being
churned out (or bought out) by them, which in my opinion is a good thing. I
couldn't imagine life without Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Server 2003 or
2008...  

 > I agree - And it seems that many companies aren't even open to considering
 > alternative solutions and products.  I've talked to some who go as far as

I think to a degree it's a lot of "they use Microsoft, so we should too".
There's also the legal departments who need a finger to point the blame when IT
goes wrong; while you can get enterprise MySQL support, try to do the same for
a smaller open source project and you're basically up shit creek -paddle.

Microsoft is pretty much the only player with a long history and is on the edge
of innovation (I'm probably opening up a huge can of worms by saying that...).
Old classics like Cisco and Oracle are being replaced by a single vendor that
does it all.

 > open-source, he thought that anyone could go into the Linux source code and
 > in a virus or otherwise malicious code.  It's attitudes like that that I
 > quite understand..  As a computer geek, I'm fairly computer-agnostic, and I

Yep. We've all heard that before. Although to a degree, I agree with that
philosophy. Why require someone to read source code before they can trust it?
In fact, why would anyone apart from a programmer want to read source code at
all? Non-geeks prefer binaries, in my experience.

Versus buying a product from Microsoft, all those unknowns add up to a lot of
time and risk very few companies I've come across are willing to accept that
risk.

 > I've also heard that Amiga is planning to release a new computer this year,

Yeah I have seen that as well, looking forward to its release, although not
sure if I'm going to purchase one!

Kind regards,
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