I work for one of the largest broadcasters in the UK and have done, one and off, for the past 4 years.
They develop on Windows, Macs and Linux. It all depends on the particular team culture you are in. The rest of the non-techies run corporate-sanctioned Windows machines. I think there is an assumption that if you decide to go off-road with your own hardware/software combination, then do not expect central IT support. And to be honest, I think that is fine. Any software issues devs can handle themselves and hardware issues means the machine gets returned. The only issue this has caused me is: 1. Not being able to run a native Outlook client on Linux and have to use the web version instead (and thats ok). 2. Not being able to VPN without WIndows but this is an issue from home not in the office(duh!) and I got round that by running Windows 7 in a VM at home for access to works network. WORA for us is extremely important even though we only produce web apps and back end Java systems. Production environments are any number of Linux flavours and we cannot guarantee our site visitors are running windows. There is no lie to Java, just like in medicine, they think they have the cure for stopping smoking but instead find it gives you a boner!!! In the early days, Java was tauted for embedded devices/running in a browser. But where it actually succeeded was server side glue and building web apps. Rakesh On 7 December 2011 15:07, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > I work in a company where all the developer computers run Linux. To be > honest this is a first as non of the other places I worked were like that. > > > On 7 December 2011 15:04, Jim McDonnell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Whoa, developers allowed to use linux? Do you work in the wild west? Next >> you'll be stating something crazy like developers use Macs and the rest of >> the company uses PCs. (Can you tell I work in a VERY controlled >> environment.) >> >> This is probably another thread I should start - Do the folks on the >> podcasts/roundups sound typical or radical - because most opinions don't >> seem to reflect what I think is typical workplace reality. Maybe I need a >> new job! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/_v_cY8OdRugJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
