Invisible wrote:
> Microsoft's entire history seems to revolve around stealing other 
> people's stuff and watching them go bankrupt faster than they can sue.

Cite?

>> Name two competitors. Were you even in the market at the time it was 
>> hashing out?
> 
> When the hell was the IBM PC invented anyway?

I rest my case.

> Actually... I'm not aware of anything else that does what Exchange does. 
> Which is a little bit odd, really.

There ya go.

> I know of a few office suites that manage to not constantly crash like 
> MS Office does. 

 > Apache is notable for doing the same thing as IIS

Only in the broad sense that UNIX does the same thing as Windows. They 
really aren't comparable.

> There are lots of database engines out 
> there; I doubt many of them are worse than SQL Server.

You haven't tried MySql then.

It sounds more like "I don't know the capabilities of Microsoft systems, so 
I listen to what Linux enthusiasts tell me about it." :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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