<Mac soapbox>
Joe,
No slight taken. I realize that the Mac community is a pimple in the business world but at the same time is gaining ground. In my opinion it has a better chance of gaining ground than Linux currently does. Having said that I have been a linux user for over 10 years and do believe it has merits but it just does not provide commercial grade equivalent to M$ or Apple. The reasons apple can make better in roads for me are the following:
1.) MS office support, no loss of productivity if tied to Outlook, Word, etc
2.) Very good list of supported software and tools, including X11 tools for unix / linux based software support
3.) Highly stable OS and much more reliable than XP or Vista
4.) With Intel based hardware cost difference are no longer significant
5.) Guaranteed hardware / software support
6.) Plain and simple performance, my Mac flat out blows away every PC I have ever used, that includes PCs with equal to or better than hardware specs to current Macs.
</Mac soapbox>
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-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:03 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi and Linux
Duane Kehoe wrote:
I would personally place more value in a Mac OS X version. Having said that, if the RDI team does their job right a Mac OS X could be easier once a linux version is built threw use of the X11 libs that come shipped with OS X. Just my 2 bits.
Thanks, Duane. I didn't mean to slight the Mac community, and I agree
that a properly done implementation would have to support OS X as well.
Basically, RDi should run anywhere Eclipse runs.
Joe
midrange.com
