Justin,

Fear not, this won't end up on the Flame Board. I dislike Microsoft but am not passionate about it. I'm actually a bit surprised that an experienced and intelligent programmer like Robert would be so pro-Microsoft (no accounting for taste).

I've written a website myself (commented about it on this specific board). Unfortunately it was no where as successful as this website. I used Apache with C language source compiled Common Gateway Interface routines (extremely fast response time and almost immune to external black hat hacks). Apache is an outstanding web server source code which is why it's one of the most popular web server codes on the Internet. I'm perplexed by Robert's negative comments about Apache.

Robert's comment concerning Netscape is amusing. I'm currently in the process of upgrading to Mozilla. The latest build looks pretty darn good. IMHO there are serious security issues surround Internet Explorer, i.e. poking around one's harddisk and reporting back to Microsoft on it's contents.

The comments about Unix were also entertaining. For my home computer, my preferred operating system was originally OS/2. OS/2 is an extremely well written multitasking operating system. Unfortunately Microsoft's predatory and unethical behavior destroyed OS/2's market base. We're now all forced to choose between Microsoft's garbage operating systems or Linux. Fortunately it's an easy choice. Linux is simply an excellent operating system. For writing scientific code there really is nothing better than Linux.

Gary