Re: RDi and Linux

Aaron,
I just made the switch to Ubuntu about 3 weeks ago. It looks like from
briefly using Evolution that it might be a reasonable alternative to
Outlook.

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On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:36 AM
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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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