Re: Re: WDSCi minimum hardware to install (was: WebSphere devstudio 5.1)

["Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Firstly, I'm not going to get a nickel out of the company
> >for upgrading my PC.  There's the whole Political Correctness
> >Environment which says 'If we can not do it for everybody
> >then we can not do it for one person.'
>
> Which brings you to the point that you're loosing valuable
> company time (and money) by just waiting, waiting... and waiting.

I agree, but remember that I am the only one here using even WDT 5.1.  The
SEU users can use a 486 and Win 95 and that's plenty fast enough.  As far as
_the company_ is concerned, everyone is fully productive.

> I don't think people should spend money on company
> machines.  A police isn't asked to bring his own gun neither.

Again, I agree.  But my moral dilemma is this: After being in the business
for 25 years, I am a senior staffer.  I should be a leader, not a follower.
I would like to BE that leader but it's not going to happen on this
hardware.  So... do I spend my own money on a company machine?  Or is that
sabotage to the junior staffers who can't afford to do the same thing?
(Because now the company thinks all developers will upgrade their own
machines?)  Maybe I am thinking about this too much.

> No matter who's spending money... WDSC remains
> a demanding piece of software which would be a
> shame that it got dropped like OS/2 (just to
> demanding in it's time context).

Yes.  If it turns out that IBM get too many complaints about the size PC
needed, will they shrink it down?  Or just wait for machines to grow into it
(like OS/2?)  If they wait, will some other tool own the market by then
(like Windows?)

> Even more, the fact that it is writtin in Java, but only
> runs on Windows (at least the iSeries related stuff)
> makes it a lost opportunity for me (they'd better
> wrote it in C++ in that case - cost/benefit you know).

Well, that's an interesting comment because IBM have abandoned Windows-only
WDT (written in C++ I think) for WDSCi..  Perhaps they switched to Java in
preparation of releasing a Linux version of WDSCi?
  --buck