Re: RDi and Linux

5 for me. I concur with whoever else mentioned iSeries Navigator as well. I'd dearly love to not be shackled to M$ any longer.

No one has mentioned (that I noticed anyway) using some product such as 2X Application Server to host RDi/WDSCi. I tried a limited version of that software with Office 2003 some months back, I believe, and it worked flawlessly from what I could tell. I hosted Office 2003 on my XP desktop, and installed the Linux 2X client in a VM. From there, I could launch any program I hosted from the XP machine: notepad, Office 2003, I think I even tried Visual Studio. With that kind of infrastructure in place, could we not place WDSCi on a server somewhere and connect to it using the 2X client (which I believe was available for Windows/Linux/Mac)? I think 2X even allowed you to specify how many users could run the hosted program at any given time (to help deal with any potential per-seat licensing issues).

Also, the limited version of 2X was fully-functional, but allowed no more than 5 concurrent connections (which could potentially handle most small development teams' needs, right?).

Am I missing something major here, or could this be at least a temporary answer until IBM realizes that making this product run everywhere Eclipse does should have been a given from day 1?