On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:18:03PM -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> > Why not just run Linux on the desktop and NFS mount the file system?
> > It seems that would be a lot less of a hassle than dealing with
> > Exceed! (cheaper too :)
>
> I think missed the key phrase "for Office". It is rather common for
> businesses to require that developers have the ability to deal with
> Microsoft Office documents and such. The traditional solution is
> exactly as Florin noted -- run Windows, and use Exceed to access your
> dev and test machines, all of which have /home mounted from some other
> machine over NFS.
>
> The last company that sussman and I worked for had this same setup.
> Of course, Ben eventually took a stand, and instead ran a FreeBSD box
> with VMWare for his Windows-land compatibility (in this case, for
> Lotus Notes). :-)
It depends on the company size. If the MIS have to manage thousands of
workstations, I can't blame them on enforcing the uniformity. And I
can't blame them from choosing M$ uniformity - "Nobody ever got fired
for buying from $BIG_COMPANY_OF_THE_DAY".
florin
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"NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator."
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