> Keep in mind that while programming languages
> have been largely "commoditized"  the best implementations of many
> languages still cost money.  E.g. you want the best C compiler?  It's
> not GCC.  Buy the Intel compiler and watch your code run twice as
> fast.

wrong, according to the people there (from google "icc vs gcc", first 
results page):
http://blog.alphagemini.org/2008/03/icc-vs-gcc-43.html
http://www.osnews.com/comments/19462

business is business, quality is quality, saying business => quality is 
an ideological statement that needs yet to be proven. IMHO :)

Stef