Re: JAVA coding environment

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich skrev:
> Vista Enterprise and Ultimate+SA allow the base hardware plus 4 running
> VMs per license and an unlimited number of non-running VMs. This also
> applies to XP under volume-license downgrade rights. If you need 30
> copies you should be on volume licensing anyway
>   
I do not need thirty copies.  I just need to be able to create a box 
when I need it.  For most things XP and Ubuntu are fine.


> Staying on XP is just silly. It's a 7 year old OS and is end-of-support
> in just over 6 months. .. and staying on 2000? Well, that was
> end-of-support over 3 years ago.
>   
Our IT department has chosen to stay on XP.  I don't know their 
rationale.  Hence it is XP I use.

I do not believe there is something wrong with XP as such, and I know 
how to solve common problems with it.

I understand that our approach to tool upgrading is fundementally 
different, which is fine with me, but please do consider that others may 
have different goals than you ;-)

/Thorbjørn