Re: A Nightmare on Rails Street: Windows Lives!

John Johnson
2005-03-07T00:15:18Z

On 06-Mar-2005, at 16:39, Rob Park wrote:
>> Not sure of the reason for this post. Just wanted to vent a little.
>
> Venting''s fine. If you want my opinion, windows is terrible and
your
> client is a moron. Tell him he''s asking you to do the impossible,
and
> then set up a sleek little linux box running lighttpd/fastcgi and
> impress him with it. No, wait -- do that in the opposite order.
> Impress him with linux first, then tell him windows is impossible.
>

Well, moron is a little harsh. He''s always easy to get along with.
Maybe "misguided" would be a better choice of words. There is already
one convert in their IT department, but she hasn''t been able to make
any inroads either. They recently installed eight Windows 2003 servers
and have nothing but trouble with them. Maybe he can be won over soon
:-)

Thanks,
   JJ