Re: RDi and Linux

["Mike Eovino" <meovino@xxxxxxxxx>]

1, unfortunately.  We had a hard enough time getting PCs for our
developers (we're a big terminal services shop).  And it's been hard
getting many of our developers to WDSC.

Personally, I love Ubuntu, but I don't see us going to Linux as a
desktop OS here at work.

Mike E.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:11 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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