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I'm sitting here on my piddly little network - so that makes it pretty hard for me to pick a side and have anything to contribute other than, "can't we all just get along?"

I'm sitting here on my piddly little home ethernet LAN of 4 PCs. The fourth used to be a Mac (G4) but I had to ditch it because it didn't get along very well with an NT4 Server (running Oracle/SQL server and Cold Fusion server) and my two other development machines (NT WS and XP). However, the main reason I ditched it was because it didn't do much in the way of serious database/internet work.

Having owned just about every Mac made up through the G4, I used to be one of the world's biggest mac bigots but got over it when I found out where the development demand ($$$) was. It was a hard switch but I now prefer the Windows environment because of the available development tools and ($$$) opportunities.

PS: For you ex-flyers or flyer wannabees who'd like to get some quality "stick" time without the danger, cost or FARs, check out IL-2 Sturmovik. My kids gave this to me as a gift and this simulation is first-rate with scenery rendering that's better than many of the commercial flight simulators I've seen, the sound is great, the planes' flight characteristics are outstanding (e.g., try getting out of an inverted spin in a P39) and the ability to build simulation missions/scenarios is excellent.

I had issues with the Mac and NT4 as well ... had to have 'Dave' on the Mac, and configuration was a pain ... since moving the main server to Win2K, all is well ... I even have a $80 HP Printer hooked up to the Win2K box thru USB, and the Mac see's it just fine thru AppleTalk.

I still find plenty of uses for the Mac (it is a Pro Tools machine primarily, but I also use it to scan from a 5370c). It has OSX, 9.2, and 9.1.1 (for the Pro Tools) as well as an Atto SCSI card and external Seagate Barracudas (18G, RAID_0) in a Glyph Rack with a Plextor CD-R ...

All that said, I spend way more time on the Windows boxes (sounds like you are I are in the same line of work) and its hard to get passionate about one over the other ... I like them all, and the distinctions are part of the fun ... I take my fun where I find it these days ... :)