[drfritznunkie]

Remember, this is Microsoft we're talking about here, which means we've got about 50/50 chance of only half the company actually following through and implementing this ;)

Do not, under any circumstance, underestimate the sheer insanity of any Microsoft licensing scheme. At my new $dayjob, they spend $1-2MM/year on Microsoft licenses and support, and it's taken close to 9 months to get Microsoft to fix some incorrectly issued licenses. Not to mention, Microsoft has rolled out some new license portal that only like TWO people know about at Microsoft, so a bunch of shiny new licenses (to the tune of $750K) went "missing" because no one, even our Microsoft rep, apparently knew about the new portal which the licenses had been created in (and which, in fine Microsoft tradition, does not support any of our old licenses...)

As the only linux guy here, it is astounding, absolutely astounding to me, how many man hours are wasted just dealing with Microsoft licensing. They probably could have ported their entire stack to open source alternatives in the time it's taken just to get our SQL Server licenses straightened out. But I get the feeling that being a Microsoft shop means you have to develop Stockholm Syndrome just to make it through your day, or else you'd go mad from dealing with Microsoft and their VARs.

[rjbwork]

I'll give a quick alternate perspective: I'm 2.5-3 years into my career, and have only worked at small 100% cloud (AWS, then Azure) based businesses. It's been wonderful.. I love my VS/R# combo, and the extreme ease of setting up lots of services on Azure quickly. Certainly a much more productive and enjoyable development experience than I had in 4 years of *nix-only college work.

[WorldWideWayne]

If people who like Microsoft-quality tools are suffering "Stockholm Syndrome", what should we call ideologues who consistently eschew high-quality tools and interfaces for openness?

Furthermore, if you you're not trapped on Unix, what system could you easily get up and move your life and your work to?

> They probably could have ported their entire stack to open source alternatives in the time it's taken just to get our SQL Server licenses straightened out...

I bet they'd still be trying to figure out which broken front-end to use to interact with PGSQL. Then we'd see a headline like "After a 10-year Linux migration, Munich considers switching back to Windows and Office".