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Again, I have NEVER had a failure of a Microsoft product that prevented or serious impaired my ability to deliver the solution as promised.

Okay, as I tried before -- then a few details about just *one* successful implementation should be easy. If you've never had this happen, and I know for certain that this happens regularly, then you must not have delivered any solutions.

Because this is a *radically* impossible claim. Like claiming you've already built and deployed a production .NET 3-tiered system. Which you also did.

Your use of those statistics regarding SQLServer is even more enlightening. Did you somehow miss the original thread where the other MS salemsman, Bush2k, first posted those? They were so completely debunked that it's become a running joke around here. MS salesmen kill me with the bogus use of statistics. Do you also use that little pamphlet MS salesmen use that has the chart "proving" MS is in the 'innovator' quandrant and IBM, Sun, etc, as following MS?

Yeesh. Well, you sell it as best you can. If fraud is the only way to sell MS products (now that coercion is out), do your best. But I don't know how you can live with yourself.

SQLServer, as an enterprise DB? Never had an MS product fail? Man, even Bush2k can admit the truth about IIS. But a good salesman is not one who refuses to admit obvious product flaws -- that's a shyster.

You're clearly not a developer.

But don't you find sometimes that the VISA/EMS bus line often conflicts outernet drive protocols with the old style non-fiberous relay type switches? We had to re-route our routers through a null-void non-synchronous cutout on a dead terminator coil to prompt the sysadmin hardware modulator chip address forwarding failsafe backup. Then, we used the non-save high-register varm bank to reprogram the worm-chipset settings. God it was a mess! parsy.

You can rant all you want, Harr, but the fact remains that Microsoft produces billions in revenue by making customers happy enough to continue to willingly buy their products. Sun's stock price is in the shitter because of their lousy business practices and products. Microsoft is doing very well and always has.

You cannot possibly lay claim that all their revenue, of over $40 billion, is from coercion, illegal practices, and the production of lousy products. Microsoft obviously, but not to you, makes products that work and people are willing to pay for them.

If you want to continue to lay claim otherwise, please do. CSC is a competitor to my company, and I hope you guys produce the most ridiculous proposals for your clients. I always love to win through competition, but if you want me to beat you because of your anti-Microsoft stance, by all means, please continue.

You can continue to challenge my status as a developer, but you are not my hero, and so I won't bother to try to impress you.