> From: bblisa [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Ned > Harvey (bblisa4) > > as long as you make mac & linux > support part of the design requirement for this consulting company, you'll be > fine.
By the way, there's a really common pitfall here: When deploying a solution and supporting cross-platform users, it is very common to test some feature list, and determine, that X, Y, and Z don't work on linux clients (or whatever). Your design requirements should NOT be everything working on every platform. That's simply impossible, and the end result would be disabling features that are useful to some group, just because they don't work for another group. Your design requirements should be instead: Either include everyone in the design & testing of the system, or at least appoint some representative from each group. Ensure the testing covers expected workflow, and even if the windows users get some extra microsoft integration features that are nice but unavailable to non-ms users, that's not a problem as long as the non-ms users have something they can work with to get their jobs done. Supporting multi platforms means acknowledging that each platform is better than the others, in their own ways. Don't hold everybody back to the lowest common denominator - Let each platform do the stuff that it's best at, even though the other platforms can't. Give people options and choices, and that includes *both* making some attempt at providing every service on every platform, *and* having access to the other platforms (in VM's) for situations where it's warranted. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
