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Originally Posted by Buffy
Don't use hammers on bolts or wrenches on nails....
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Now, that's a good one Buffy!!!
I can say that in the past five years, which means since I returned to sw, I've been switching between things as different as from VB6+Sybase to J2EE+Oracle, client-server, web and what you will, so I've always had to acquire familiarity with new stuff on the fly and with some customers that growl like famished tigers and never say you've been too quick. Working on a complex enterprise web app isn't simple, even when you have sophisticated tools to use especially for repeating some long tasks such as deployment. Right now I'm hurrying to get my past six week's work ready for tomorrow's release, since yesterday I've been swearing because of some little windoze hitches and just now I got over a seemingly incomprehensible hitch on the SunOS 5.7 server here by having a Zen enlightenment.
In my job, all on PCs, I've been using mostly Windoze. I would like to have more familiarity with Unix/Linux and so on but I currently couldn't be nearly as productive on them and likewise many colleagues I know. I do know people who prefer working on Linux and would swear a lot more on Windoze. There are usually some experts in every place I've been, yet most of these places have PCs with Windoze including many servers.
What I mean is that it depends on what you're used to and they don't always find people that can perform surgical tasks on Linux source in an emergency. I haven't even time to learn all the mnemonic Unix commands with all the options, I could never get the most out of grep either. I especially realized the gap after a brief stay at a customer where the boss was the only other Windoze user and I had hoped to grab a chance to acquire more familiarity on Linux.
I can understand the money dealers still being wary of using only Posix systems. Uncle Bill still monopolizes the PC world and more people are able to be productive using Windoze and the many sophisticated tools around.
