Why so many microsoft shops?
While looking for a job, I’ve been surprised by the number of places developing on a Microsoft platform. I didn’t know that it was so common, at least in Chicago. If you’re using a Microsoft OS, service, or language and it works for you then great, but aren’t there open source alternatives that are just as good and not as expensive? Especially MS SQL server; whenever I see that I can’t help but wonder why they aren’t using MySQL or Postgresql. Does anyone reading this work in the Microsoft world at work? What keeps your company there?
Tags: development, microsoft, open source, software