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anigbrowl
on July 2, 2009
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Open source software only comes in one edition: aw...
So why is Jeff Atwood using Windows instead of Linux to run his database server? Not complaining, but presumably it delivers something that the open-source alternative doesn't.
mattmcknight
on July 2, 2009
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He uses SQL Server, of course. The root cause is that Joel used to work for Microsoft. Awesome.
dmpayton
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Not just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).
smokinn
on July 3, 2009
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And he spent a good chunk of his career as an evangelist for a Microsoft shop. (Not Microsoft itself but a "Microsoft partner")
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