I have always used Microsoft products. I develop in Visual Studio, I use SQL Server 2005 and all its components, Windows 2003, etc.
I know I SHOULD learn Linux. I tried installing it once (before I had enough computer knowledge) and I killed my machine. I haven’t tried since because I was too lazy and Microsoft was already ‘good enough’.
Now that Virtual Machine software is becoming more popular and affordable, I am really starting to look into it. I am looking at starting a business on-the-side with a Co-worker, and I have been thinking that this may be a great tool for our software development. (We don’t have much cash to start up.)
However, if we continue with Microsoft, we will need to buy new licenses for every VM we run. That will get REALLY expensive really fast.
So I am thinking that now is the time to learn linux (my co-worker already knows linux). I am wondering if anyone else here thinks that Linux (and other open source systems) will get more popular as VM get more popular? Also, do you think now is the time for me to learn Linux?
Thanks in advance for the comments!
