I have to agree RE productivity. I started the trend here a couple of
years ago with WDSC/Visual Studio on a screen, and 5250/web browser/app
on other screen. Most of the time I have email one screen, and work on
another.
Everyone in our IT office has two screens. Many in our front office
(admin) area also have two screens: for document retrieval on one
screen, 5250 data entry session on another.
In my opinion the extra real estate greatly outweighs lost mouse
pointers and I lose mine all the time. Not to mention looking at one
screen and finding out what I typed appeared in a window on the other
screen.
I need window focus to follow my eyes. :)
Loyd Goodbar
Business Systems
BorgWarner Shared Services
662-473-5713
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:40 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Environments ... big iron & desktop (was: *** ADMIN: EGL
vs.<anything> == Off Topic -- REVERSAL)
Is having more than one monitor the norm for companies in the USA?
I can't speak to it being the 'norm' here in the US ... but I find
having multiple monitors absolutely invaluable ... especially when
working on multi-tier applications. More often than not I have a 5250
screen on one monitor, my debug session on another (debugging both Java
and RPG simultaneously), and a log scrolling on my 3rd monitor (laptop
that gets multi-tasked to be a monitor).
My productivity increased sufficiently in the office that two monitors
are now standard config for developers in my office (if not our entire
company).
david
midrange.com
