On Aug 25, 4:18 am, "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signat...@see-
below.com> wrote:
> Michael T Pins wrote:
> > The main justification, at least for me, is the drastically improved
> > productivity. In my current job I was stuck with nothing but a Windoze
> > laptop for the first month or so. It cost me at least an hour a day
> > (likely more) in lost productivity by having to deal with Windoze dreadful
> > UI. It doesn't take very long to pay for itself.
<SNIP>
> Basically the laptop is about as good as laptops go, but the old Sun is
> definitely more productive! I've spent the day writing UNIX scripts and
> C programs to process some experimental data. Doing this on a laptop via
> SSH or similar would have been a pain in the butt to say the least.
> Writing the code on Windows, without having a UNIX box at all would have
> been very painful.
<SNIP>

My main machine her at work is an old old SunBlade 100 thats still
going. We have a mixed Citrix / Solaris enviroment and the main reason
we have this around is:

1) Can test SPARC patches on this machine without affecting anything
2) A lot easier working in with multiple terminal windows in Gnome
than Windows
3) We have a number of Gnome/X-Windows front end utilities that graph
system performance
4) A lot easier to manage the multiple Citrix sessions I have floating
around
5) It's always up which means I can get into this machine no matter
what.

Cheers,

Glenn