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So why is Jeff Atwood using Windows instead of Linux to run his database server? Not complaining, but presumably it delivers something that the open-source alternative doesn't.

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He uses SQL Server, of course. The root cause is that Joel used to work for Microsoft. Awesome.

Not just that, but Jeff is a .Net programmer (IIRC, S.O. is written in C#).

And he spent a good chunk of his career as an evangelist for a Microsoft shop. (Not Microsoft itself but a "Microsoft partner")

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