Good tips about developers being able to run software under other licensing rules - I did not think that one through fully I can see now.
I personally disagree, respectfully of course, with the people who say, that developers should be able to maintain CF and web server, as well as set up 3rd party components etc. To me, that is like saying that any developer should be able to set up a database server, know how DNS functions etc. While I would agree, that knowing some of these things could be beneficial for a developer from time to time, I feel that developers should be specialists who focus solely on developing - not on server maintenance. I don't know if this might be a cultural difference (in terms of how things are done) - me being Danish personally - but in all places I've worked the last 10 years, the IT department has done most of the configuration and maintenance of developer machines. Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with developers setting things up themselves, but I understand (from the company's perspective) how it can be beneficial to have these things centralized. Following the previous inputs in this thread, I went digging in my old emails and it turns out (I had completely forgotten about this) that we did indeed talk about switching over from shared resources, to each developer running their own complete setup. The plans were eventually dropped, as it was deemed too expensive (in terms of lost productivity) and adding an additional layer of complexity in terms of maintenance. This was back in 2007 and perhaps it is time to revisit this once more. You guys' passionate arguments for this approach has certainly given me some food for thought and I will take this up with my colleagues in the near future. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354233 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
