[SLUG] Windows 2003 + VS.NET 2003

[Luke Burton <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did anyone here attend the launch of these two products down in Darling 
Harbour?

I was there, and I'm interested to know whether anyone has prepared or 
knows of a comparison between some of the fancier features of .NET and 
Server 2003 and RedHat/Debian whoever.

I found some of the features very interesting - like built-in version 
control so you can roll back to previous versions of any file for 
instance (I believe VMS had this?)

The big one though is the IDE. The sheer size and amount of stuff in 
there is mind boggling. Quite impressive - in C# one of the 
demonstrators made a blogging system, live, in about 50 lines of code.

The overwhelming impression I walked away with was "Linux can do all 
that", but it's not presented in a package that is as easy to use, as 
elegantly designed, and that (more or less) works out of the box.

E.g. Perl could probably match that blogging system no worries, but 
does it have a nice IDE where you can drag a database table into your 
source code to make customised adapters for it, or a built-in HTML 
editor? Plus you'd probably have to download a buckload of stuff from 
CPAN, and then you'd have to pay ActiveState for an editor that has 
intellisense ...

Rambling a bit here :)

Rgz,

Luke.

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