A quick comparison August 22nd, 2005

The Microsoft way Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition: $3,999 Visual Studio.NET, Enterprise Edition: $2,499 per developer SQL Server, Enterprise Edition: $19,999 per processor Programming in an outdated, insecure, hard to use environment: priceless. The Linux way Debian Linux: free Apache 2.0: free PostgreSQL: free Perl/PHP/Python: free Programing in a fun, modern, secure environment: priceless.