Thread:Project:Support desk/Migration of 1.12 on Linux to Windows 2008/reply (2)

Thank you. You make an excellent point about not knowing the source of errors. I had been trying to think of a way around doing those upgrades, but now I have a different opinion. With regard to Linux vs. Windows, I couldn't agree with you more. The decision to change platforms is being driven by economics, mainly that the unit I am working for has had it's technical staff reduced from nine to two people (I'm person #3, here for one year to help them downsize and re-architect things so they can manage with a staff of two) and this is the only Linux installation. Everything else they manage, including the business apps they've written here, are on the Windows stack, so we are moving them heavily into virtualization (to eventually remove all of their hardware and let another IT org play host) and we are trying to get to a common platform that they understand.

Again, thanks for the perspective!