Depends on business needs (Score 1)

Linux or Windows as Development platform. It all depends on your business needs. The current product I'm working on doesn't require to be platform independent at all, so why would I spent time in setting up my crew to learn a total new environment. Do you really think I can afford to loose a customer that is allready using an NT environment using backoffice etc, because I don't like how windows is working. Hmm grow up please. If a customer comes to me and says: " hey I got a sytem running here and your product needs to be integrated with ours". I will say:"oke no problem" and I will start coding it no matter what the platform might be. Also even if it would have to be platform independent, it's still perfectly possible to code it under any platform. Even now at work we use dedicated tools for the GUI side since it allows us to do the job in the shortest time, but we use plain C++ for the back bone (business objects etc) and another layer to abstract the OS side. And yeah I do like Visual Studio and its tools, its stable, well documented and nicely integrated. I know it's not for free, but it ain't that exspensive either. And finally for the stability part, I agree that win95 is a joke for developping stuff, but NT4 and Win2k provides me with all the stability I will ever need.