Re: RDi and Linux

[Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thunderbird is pretty slick for email...i prefer Outlook (or Lookout) to 
thunderbird but if you're trying to escape M$ you might should take a look 
at it.

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
06/11/2008 09:38 AM
Subject:
Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi and Linux



For me personally I would have to rate it a 5 (very important), simply
because I have made the jump to Linux (Unbuntu) officially and it is 
painful
to have to go to my Virtualized Windows XP just to run WDSC/RDi.

Note that this would be a feature that would get people to kick the free
WDSC and go to the paid for RDi - I know it would for me.

What would make me curious is to know how many "switchers" we would have 
if
RDi ran natively on Linux??  I think we would see a lot more because there
are a good number of pundits looking for this alternative (myself, you, 
Jon
Paris, Trevor Perry, etc) and I have started dropping hints in the 
sessions
I give on how to run more on free software (i.e. Open Office, Tn5250j,
Ubuntu, etc) as I suspect others are doing.

The two pieces of software I can't live without right now, that I also 
don't
have a solid alternative to, are WDSC and Outlook.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
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