Re: Re: WDSCi minimum hardware to install (was: WebSphere dev studio 5.1)

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:23:11 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.systems.as400.code
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Firstly, I'm not going to get a nickel out of the
>company for upgrading my PC.  There's the whole Polotical Correctness
>Environment which says 'If we can not do it for everybody then we can not do
>it for one person.'  

Which brings you to the point that you're loosing valuable company time (and money) by just waiting, waiting... and waiting.  I also worked for such a company, and as long as they didn't get an invoice for the cost it was all ok.  BTW, people within a company have different needs... a secretary doing Word with a PIV 3.0 GHz is ridiculuos.

>
>Secondly, She Who Must Be Obeyed would rather that we spent that money at
>home.  Not for me to work more (at home), but for her to play more :-)  So a
>laptop (to transport my work environment around with me) is probably a tough
>sell.

This is an issue of company versus home use... I don't think people should spend money on company machines.  A police isn't asked to bring his own gun neither.  If you want to stay ahaid, and play/work at home it is another discussion (however, one that's in the intrest of your boss as well)

>
>I honestly believe that I hold the public record for the oldest hardware
>trying to load WDSCi.  It would be very enlightening to hear about other
>folks with PIII class machines and their experiences with it.
>

No matter who's spending money... WDSC remains a demanding piece of software which would be a shame that it got dropped like OS/2 (just to demanding in it's time context).  Even more, the fact that it is writtin in Java, but only runs on Windows (at least the iSeries related stuff) makes it a lost opportunity for me (they'd better wrote it in C++ in that case - cost/benefit you know).


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