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To: Dominic Harr
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.

51 posted on 05/31/2002 9:46:19 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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To: PatrioticAmerican
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.

Just like with the .NET claim you made, I honestly would like to know some details about your career.

You've said that you're just so good with MS products you've never even had IIS go down on you. Never had SQLServer problems. Never had Exchange or MS Project issues.

That makes you the world's greatest living developer. I talk to lots of developers. Many, many MS developers. And everyone, and I mean everyone, has had problems with MS stuff not working as advertised.

So your claims make you the greatest living MS developer! So naturally I'd be curious to find out just a few details. What was the last project you delivered? I just finished an 'OnCall' system for our Help Desk. It has java applet for the front-end, a servlet for the middle tier and a SQLServer 7 back end (the fella who 'owned' the data, in what he calls the 'Hawk' system, didn't know anything else, and wouldn't use anything else), which gave us several problems that MS tech support couldn't resolve. Most annoying was the way SQLServer handles joins. Then there were problems with IIS. For one thing, we had to spend an additional $800 to buy JRun so IIS could run servlets!

So what's your secret? Are you the best developer in the world? Or are you just making all this up to try and sell MS? You make amazing claims, which you seem unwilling to explain at all.

Even Bush2k can admit part of the truth about IIS, for goodness sake!

52 posted on 06/01/2002 9:01:17 AM PDT by Dominic Harr
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