> so even a few percentage points in additional market is quite a good
> ROI.
Perhaps if you're already programming in Java, but there are plenty of VB
and C++/MFC guys out there for whom it would take a significant amount of
time to move to something else. In their cases, they might need more than a
few percentage points in additional market share.
> You are using a four year old laptop? I don't know any developers that
> use a laptop that old. I suspect you must be an outlier. Then again,
> maybe it is the work you do. I mean if you aren't stressing out a four
> year old laptop then the work must not be that intense. I mean Outlook
> alone is enough to stress out most older machines.
I'm not sure what counts as intense. I'm running Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition, with IIS 6, multiple instances of SQL Server 2000,
multiple instances of JRun 4 with CFMX, Flex, Generator 2 (!) and other
things. I also have Apache 2, Tomcat 5, and some other server odds and ends.
I occasionally use VMware, within which I run Windows 2000, RH Linux 9, and
Windows Server 2003.
The key is not to turn all these things on at once! Especially not the
VMware.
I use Dreamweaver MX 2004, MS Office 2003, and Adobe Acrobat Professional 6
on a pretty regular basis. My mail client is Outlook 2003, with a local OST
mirror of my Exchange mailbox. This local OST is approximately 2GB. I also
have about 3GB of PST content on here that I access occasionally. I use
VS.NET 2003 pretty regularly now, as I'm very interested in .NET Compact
Framework stuff right now. Fortunately, I don't have to use all these things
at once either, although Outlook is pretty much running 24/7.
Since getting this laptop, I've upgraded the memory to 512MB, and upgraded
the hard disk to 60GB.
> It has nothing to do with coolness factor or any other useless metric
> you can think of.
Perhaps in your case; I can't speak for you. I suspect that there are plenty
of other developers for whom my description is accurate. I suspect you might
be an outlier.
> Unix continues to be easier to administrate, faster, more robust, and
> just plain more capable. While there are still some good reasons not to
> use Linux on the desktop; there is no reason to avoid Mac OS X.
I think the word you're looking for is "administer", but ok, whatever. I
have plenty of reasons why I still use Windows, but the primary one is that
it does everything I need it to do.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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