From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 07:30:10 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > In any case, I *did* develop a Linux project at work. It was fun.   
   > Porting our Windows project to Linux. The other Linux jobs were   
   > basically sysadmin on RedHat boxes, not dev jobs.   
      
   We ported our AIX product to Windows :) Obviously the jump from AIX to   
   Linux was easy and most of us developed on Linux and tested on AIX. The   
   game changed around 2000 when Windows servers looked a lot less expensive   
   that new RS6000s. IBM helped the move by putting the Y2K patches into an   
   OS that wouldn't run on older boxes.   
      
   We had two sites that ran Linux server side because the site   
   administrators liked Linux. When they left, so did Linux. I never thought   
   our marketing people pushed Linux too hard. As more sites migrated to Esri   
   that was the final nail. Esri is very Windows-centric. They made a half-   
   assed attempt with a Java environment that sort of brought COM to Linux   
   but it was short lived.   
      
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