Re: JAVA coding environment

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> > Both XP and Windows 2000 (the latter is the leanest plus it does not have 
> > validation issues when you do stuff with your virtual machine).
> >     
>
> Windows 2000???    WHY???? Anyone that runs 8+ year old Oss has no right to complain about the OS.
>   
The problem is that Microsoft's draconian licensing doesn't play well in 
virtual machines, especially when you're changing the configuration.  
Another place it falls down is training.  I'd like to keep a catalog of 
images that I can load 30 copies for two days and then get rid of.  I 
need to have them loaded and tested months ahead of time.  That's hard 
to do with XP, piece of cake with 2000.  And remember, these training 
stations are Windows machines that already have valid licenses - I just 
want to run the software in a VM to avoid conflicts.

That's just one more reason I find myself inching ever closer to a 
non-Windows workstation environment.  It's ironic that the primary thing 
holding me back is the RDi tooling <grin>.  But I just installed RDi on 
a W2K virtual machine - I'll let you know if that's my answer.  I may 
just go Linux and run a VM for RDi.

Joe