unreviewed - 6:24 am on Jan 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

>>I'm a Unix/PC guy myself. But lately I've grown to appreciate their (Apple's) ability to go beyond what has already been done.

… for example?

With Microsoft I use for free,

.net 2.0 framework – tell me what this framework doesn’t have and I’ll point you to .net 3.0 beta.

Visual Basic or C# … or for that matter F#

Open source? – Dotnetnuke and thousands of other efforts ignored by people like maximillianos, despite the nose on their face.

Free software? – From programming, to database, to web design software – all free. A long, long list of completely free programs with actual help via video, web sites and professional books. Not to mention, help for newbie’s without the attitude of the typical Linux God. Basically that is what separates these types of people from the light ... just a simple misdirected God complex.

And all of the above currently kills Java for cross platform development.
Perl - don’t know much about Perl, but I’m sure my Grandfather can help you out.
PHP – which branch of this tree do you want to climb today?
Python – Great language but Zope took the lead and flopped. Google still makes use of it and so can you, within Windows.
Ajax – have you looked at what Microsoft is giving away in regards to this technique? Name another web site that has as many free tools or free useful enterprise level downloadable software in this area.