Re: RDi and Linux

1 - I'm pretty tied to MS Office applications

It would be more important to me for it to run on a Mac. However, I
haven't ever actually used a Mac so I don't know if I would like it or
not.


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:12 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
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