On Thursday 23 Sep 2004 13:33, Brett Parker wrote:
I'm currently working at a company that runs linux on the desktop... or at least on *MY* desktop. Yes, I do know that it can be bent to run on windows, but why do that when you can run it on a real server and use remote repositories if you're stuck on using windows as a development platform?
Well that's all that I needed to demonstrate to me where you're coming from. You're point of view is that Linux is the only *real* server available and that Linux runs quite happily on *your* machine.
You need to realise that this is by far and away not the common point of view out there in the commercial IT world. By accepting this fact is the only way things are going to change. It's like that wierd putty you could get in the 80s - if you applied soft pressure you could mould it easily, but if you hit it with a hammer it was hard as a rock.
BTW, at my company I have almost 100% Linux machines with just the one Mac. I run Windows in VMWare to check stuff out on there. I'm 100% a Linux advocate, but there are ways to go about getting it accepted, and ways that make people put up barriers to defend themselves against an onslaught of overly-technical and passionate language.
Matt