Well, I have finally come to my senses. I am tired of all of the quirks and issues with Linux, and am switching to Windows. In the next few weeks, I'll be moving my websites onto a new server running Windows Server 2008, and replacing Zimbra with Exchange. It will be such a relief to not have to mess with command lines and configuration files. Read the rest to find out more.
Have you seen the Zimbra upgrade method? It's insane. Who in their right mind is supposed to follow all of the crap they expect you to do in order to get the latest release? Not only that, but upgrading Ubuntu itself is a pain in the rear. Sure, it's easy on the Desktop version of the OS, where there's a nice graphical tool to guide you through the process, but on the server, it's a text based process that can spit out some rather scary messages.
On top of all that, Microsoft would never release an operating system with a name like Jaunty Jackalope or Karmic Koala. Is this a bunch of immature geeks we're dealing with here? What's next? The names of characters from a Disney movie?
No, it's clear to me now, Windows has won the war. Things are so simple to set up, and everything just works, out of the box. There's no messing with weird configuration files, or labourous upgrade processes (because you never have to upgrade Windows, you just install service packs instead.)
It's the right time, and the right place, Windows is the future.
While I'm at it, I think I'm going to rewrite Webtoo Websight from Perl into VB.NET, as there are far more VB.NET programmers than Perl programmers. Plus, VB.NET is supported by a big company, who supports Perl? Perl can't even decide what it wants to be, there's Perl 5, Perl 5 + Moose, a whole bunch of Perl 5 modules called Perl6::featurehere, and then there's at least a dozen different half-baked implementations of Perl 6 which will never be finished. No, Perl is dead too, time to move to VB.NET.
So, it's back to my roots, I started with DOS and QBASIC, and now I'm just moving on to the newest developments based on those technologies. Thank God, I'm finally home.
Then again, maybe I should stop laughing now, and make a note of the date.