Re: RDi and Linux

1...Linux is not allowed here and i don't normally use linux as my main OS
at home ( i use it for firewalls, etc) so really it's not that big of a
deal. i'm sure that others will want it so i think IBM *should* invest
some time in it though, after all the customer is always right...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
06/11/2008 09:22 AM
Subject:
[WDSCI-L] RDi and Linux



In my session at Rational, George Farr asked the audience who thought
that having RDi on Linux was important. Only one or two hands went up.
Although this really wasn't a session on RDi, it was on RDi-SOA, and the
audience was more non-i people than i people, it was still a little
surprising to me.

I then began to wonder whether my own personal anti-Microsoft bias is
really skewing my perception. Personally, if I were running an IT
department I'd be very interested in a pure Linux network. With the
exception of a couple of specific-use programs, I don't use Windows-only
products anymore and I'm pretty happy. My biggest issue today is that I
have to use Windows for RDi.

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being very important and 1 being not
important at all, how would you rate the importance of having RDi
running on Linux?

Joe