Could have just shipped the customer a server, especially as Joel's article suggests that most of your on-prem customers went with dedicated servers for the software anyway.
Find it hard to imagine that a significant percentage of your customers were 100% linux/mac to the extent that they'd refuse any win boxes in their shop.
I was in IT at the time and catered to a number of 100% mac shops (mostly ad agencies/gfx design studios) and there were always one or two win boxes around, usually a couple for fileserver/backup and one for the sysadmin to do sysadmin things with.
>We couldn’t go back in time and decide to write it in a different language.
You had an intern write a program that rewrote it in a different language for you, time after time after time.
Find it hard to imagine that a significant percentage of your customers were 100% linux/mac to the extent that they'd refuse any win boxes in their shop.
I was in IT at the time and catered to a number of 100% mac shops (mostly ad agencies/gfx design studios) and there were always one or two win boxes around, usually a couple for fileserver/backup and one for the sysadmin to do sysadmin things with.
>We couldn’t go back in time and decide to write it in a different language.
You had an intern write a program that rewrote it in a different language for you, time after time after time.
You could have just rewritten it once :)