From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 10:53:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DFE16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F247343FD7 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:53:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:3478 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19zgUQ-0002ek-6C; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:53:18 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:51:01 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-151.acuson.com ([157.226.46.151]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id SXCQZMH4; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:50:13 -0700 From: Johnson David To: "Person, Roderick" Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:52:20 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4E@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4E@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309171052.20867.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19zgUQ-0002ek-6C*xhnqgJEFUjI* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:53:20 -0000 On Wednesday 17 September 2003 10:29 am, Person, Roderick wrote: > I have the same setup at home. I wish I could at work, but this place > is too M$ dependent and everyone hates it!! If I could find a way to > run Delphi and Terminal Server on FreeBSD, I switch at work too! My company builds medical ultrasound systems. Traditionally we were a UNIX shop and everyone had a Sparc station. But after a buyout and several reorgs, we're now a Windows-only shop trying to do embedded UNIX development. Hah! I am so much more productive using FreeBSD+KDE rather than Windows for embedded UNIX development that it's not even funny. We still have our old Sun Ultra10s, and simply exporting my DISPLAY lets me use FrameMaker, Clearcase and ClearQuest under FreeBSD. OpenOffice handles most MSOffice documents just fine. Korganizer keeps me organized. The only thing I need Windows for is setting up meetings with Outlook Calendar. But since I'm not a manager, I don't have to do that but once a month or so. If I could figure out a way to convince IT to turn on Outlook Web Access without letting them know what I want it for, I could dump Windows completely. David