Question for all you techies out there, what is the purpose of having a staging and production environment? Wouldn’t it defeat the purpose if they are both different?

There is absolutely no excuse for them to be different especially when you’ve actually got more than enough budget to pay for it! This is stupid! Now I’ve got to deploy an application that’s on Windows platform in the staging environment while the production is on a Unix environment! What the heeowll is the staging and production environment for anyway?!!!

I wonder how much patience and sanity is left in me to continue working in this industry…