Re: Development Environment Workstations

Camo
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:42:56 -0000

I think running to many flavors can cause trouble down the track as
you expand, and developers demand different programs and
applications.  And the incompatibility of software between the 3 OS.

One good benefit to having different OS is that you can more options
to do testing in browsers.  Sadly, Its important to have access to XP
somehow (Even if its a XP image through vmware) so that you can do UI
testing in IE 6.  There are ways around this by having browsers shots,
but these don''t expose some UI bugs.

If you do give developers options try and keep most on same flavors,
like allowing only Ubuntu for linux, XP for windows and Mac well just
OSX, This will at least give them some options however allows you some
control.

Also if you server is FreeBSD that is ok, if you concerned about
Development Environment issues, then I would suggest having a staging/
proofing server to allow tests to be conducted on similar servers to
the production ones, with out having an effect on the live data.