I give it another play around sometime soon, but it would have to other a lot more to persuade me to migrate now :) And our scaling needs are not large - might go up to 4(!) nodes next year.

I did, easier than openstack to put together, but still very fiddly and at the time I tried it, required a min of three nodes.

Well windows has Remote Desktop (RDP), but I think that supports your point. I use xrdp for remote gui connects to my linux boxes as it performs a hell of a lot better than X, which is unusable on anything except a local LAN.

Oddly enough X gets along fine with crap remote display support.

Try proxmox (http://proxmox.com/)

debian based system - trivial to install, uses KVM and Containers, nice web based admin system. Supports clusters and High Availability out of the box.

+100

SMB here - We virtualised all our 6 servers and multiple test pc's onto a couple of grunty boxes. We looked at the cloud, but our net is to slow and unreliable (thanks Malcom Turnball for screwing the NBN).

Looked at OpenStack - a freaking nightmare to put together. Huge chain of dependencies and general flakyness. vSphere was too expensive if you wanted clustering, vmotion, replication etc. We eventually settled on proxmox - debian based using KVM, trivially easy to install and get running. Nice admin interface and basic backup facilities.

8 months on no real regrets, so sometimes regret not going with HyperV 2012.

Disagree, I've been using kmail2 with gmail & a rackspace imap server for some time now, its been flawless. Also using the google resource to integrate my contacts and calender, reliably synced between gmail and my android phone - something kmail1 was never able to do.

And with baloo replacing nepomuk, email search finally works - far faster than kmail1 ever was, I have over a 100,000 msgs which it can full text search in seconds.

Baloo is amazing, it actually delivers what nepomuk promised. I actually use ti regularly day to day - file, email & contact searching.

I was with you till you mentioned Skuemorphism, that needs to die in a fire ASAP. Poxy volume control knobs in a mouse driven UI.

USA World. Its another planet altogether.

I suspect there will always be a market for real meat, in the situation you describe I image real meat will move to being a delicacy and a luxury, hopefully supplied by animals farmed in a more "humane" manner.

I did S60 apps - worst dev system I have every seen - incredibly arcane and convulated dev chain, the C++ library had over *1200* classes. For a fucking mobile phone. And the class hierarchy was just perverse.

Agreed, shitty Marketing. I moved from my Sona Xperia Sola to a Lumia 525 - roughly the same price (contract free), heaps better phone - snappier, nicer to use.

This may be changing, seeing a lot more public awareness & pushing of the Lumia's in Australia.

Side Note:Development for Android and Windows Phone is pretty straightforward. I did some Symbian S60 dev in the past and that was just vile.

I've had the misfortune to be digging through a gnome program recently. The documentation is crap. Full of bad links, ambiguous statements and empty pages. Versioning is appalling, there is no list of documentation by gnome version.

When googling on the Qt4 api, I'll get a host of links to accurate offical documents, examples and informative blog entries. To a lessor extent it is the same for KDE (could do better).

With GTK/Gnome, 90% of the time I'll get a gnome.org page with broken links that is out of date.

So they're yummy? deep fried locusts, crickets etc are delicious and much more ecologically sustainable than a vegan diet.