From: Mike Stephens Date: 2011-05-25T02:45:54+09:00 Subject: Keep your options open Michal Suchanek wrote in post #1000501: > I would guesstimate Windows being on about half > of computers in the world. > even PDAs and tablets that can run Ruby but not MS Office OLE. According to this http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10 90% of computers run Windows, so normally you'd stand a fair chance of your program working if you used OLE. > I don't know what you mean by e-business. If you mean serving web > pages then I would rather rely on Java then .NET for the purpose. I'm not saying I'm right or that MS is better. I'm just saying there are a lot of people in my world (eg web apps for customers to service 120,000 loans; websites to sell international health insurance etc) and they just don't have this slightly puerile anti-microsoft attitude, so I'm confused why a few people on here cannot help themselves from making snide remarks whenever MS is mentioned. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.