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What's in it for you, except, a dislike for anything Microsoft?

Microsoft. Bah! Aren't they the ones who slanted the file separator wrong?

If I need an operating system, Ubuntu meets my needs just fine. Works fine in the cloud as a server. Works fine in the store doing the apps I need. Customizable and redeployable at will, via USB stick, with no license fees. Need a DB, use PostgreSQL. Forget SQL/Server. Forget Oracle.

If I need a personal computer, Apple is where I shop. Four pixels per pixel! Nice!

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Microsoft. Bah! Aren't they the ones who slanted the file separator wrong?

If I need an operating system, Ubuntu meets my needs just fine. Works fine in the cloud as a server. Works fine in the store doing the apps I need. Customizable and redeployable at will, via USB stick, with no license fees. Need a DB, use PostgreSQL. Forget SQL/Server. Forget Oracle.

If I need a personal computer, Apple is where I shop. Four pixels per pixel! Nice!

Did you have something to contribute to the discussion at hand? This was not about Linux vs Windows/MS vs Apple/iOS. This discussion was/is about tablets, and Microsoft's expected entry into that market with the Surface(s) tablets.

Your argument is a complete tangent, with you professing your love fo all things Linux. However, most people, outside of the server market, use Windows, so, you are in the very lonely and tiny minority.

When it comes to market share, as a developer, I would target the biggest player in the market, and, of course, that would be the Windows marketplace.

When it comes do databases, if they're neutral in the target OSes that can work with them, I'm with you, and, I will use a DB framework that plays well with all platforms, and, believe it or not, the one that I use, is, Postgresql, and the web application which I've been designing, is using Postgresql.

So, other than your tangent on OSes and your adoration for Linux, you had one salient point, that being about the open source Postgresql.