Naw.. this is just religious bs. I know non-technical people who work at Sun and bitch and bitch about having to use StarOffice. Bottom-line is that their productivity is way down. Especially those who have to work with the outside world.
I used to be religious before, but I'm quite agnostic now. The important thing is to be able to do your job well and fast. "Eating your own dogfood" is _only_ useful to weed out defects in the product. Not to satisfy some meaningless jihad.
I mean, Sun's gotta get a clue. They are a non-entity in the client space. Why force their non-techies to use Sun boxes ?
Finally don't even talk about costs. I'm sure it's much much cheaper to get the employees x86 boxes from whoever. More importantly, think of all those powerful SPARC chips (which were designed for I/O intensive systems) being wasted on X !! They are best used with Sun's customers.
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I used to be religious before, but I'm quite agnostic now. The important thing is to be able to do your job well and fast. "Eating your own dogfood" is _only_ useful to weed out defects in the product. Not to satisfy some meaningless jihad.
I mean, Sun's gotta get a clue. They are a non-entity in the client space. Why force their non-techies to use Sun boxes ?
Finally don't even talk about costs. I'm sure it's much much cheaper to get the employees x86 boxes from whoever. More importantly, think of all those powerful SPARC chips (which were designed for I/O intensive systems) being wasted on X !! They are best used with Sun's customers.