One word: Virtualbox

With the seamless windowing support (
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=757) it's the only way to
go...

On 5 November 2010 10:53, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 2, 8:29 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > We can claim that people going at conferences are more important than
> > others, but I fear we only do because ... they're us. We don't pay Apple
> > more than other people, so I think that those stats make Java developers
> > really not important in Apple's marketing plans. They don't make Java
> > developers particularly appealing to Oracle, too (given that, I think
> > that still a few weeks should be waited for before calling Oracle out of
> > the game).
> >
>
> I would say that people going to conferences are doing so either of
> their own volition - either funding themselves or because they are
> freelance - or because they are working for a forward-looking company
> that wants to develop their staff. Those companies, in my opinion, are
> more likely to let developers use what is most productive (so Linux
> and OS X will be more in evidence). So by definition the Windows and
> less forward-looking Corporate footprint will always be under-
> represented. Until I returned to freelance work about three years ago
> I'd not been to a single external training or conference event for
> nearly five years. My company insisted on Windows and Oracle
> Developer. We had to put up with Windows but almost everybody used
> Eclipse...
>
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