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I remember that! Here is your original comment from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503464. I enjoyed t

I remember that! Here is your original comment from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6503464. I enjoyed that subthread. (I assume you don't mind it being linked to this identity, since the details are identifiable. Sorry if you do.) I like follow-ups on predictions, so please allow me to request one. When asked in that thread, you said you would "probably controversially" choose Windows Server 2012 on a mid-range HP DL or ML server for a system meant to last over a decade. Almost a decade has passed. Do you think today that this would have been the right choice at the time? I am not questioning your choice as an anti-Windows thing or anything like that. I am genuinely curious.

baz00 3y ago
Oh wow. Details show how bad my memory is as well - stories fade and change over time :) Well over a decade has passed now and I have nothing to do with Windows whatsoever any more and am running fully Apple on the desktop and Linux on the server side of things. I wouldn't have anything to do with it any more. That was a completely wrong prediction. I inherited a lot of Hyper-V infrastructure with SCVMM which really finished it off. What did work was CentOS on AWS EC2 though although I'm not sure that's good any more what with the whole RHEL controversy recently. So for another future prediction which will be equally wrong: I don't have a clue any more and am trying desperately to find a way out of the industry.