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Re: Linux in the Workplace

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> c. Examples of companies that use Linux extensively for software
> development or other "desktop" applications?
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KE Software, here and in Australia use Linux as its main software
development platform, displacing both SCO and Solaris. We currently have 8
or 10 boxes here, and several Lose95 workstations, and some other number in
Australia. We've started to deploy Linux/Redhat/X11/KDE|gnome as developer
stations, though we are finding enough differences between Windows Netscape
and Linux Netscape that we are limited. The sooner netMozilla is up to
speed, the better, for our purposes. The lack of Java in the latest version
is our main limiting factor.

Bear in mind that KE deploys its main product, the Texpress database server
on 50 different unix platforms, and as a developer, the thing that most
often frustrates me is the lack of tools on our target deployments (mostly
Solaris,Digital Unix,HPUX). Linux, as far as I'm concerned, is much more
complete in the standard distributions than any of the commercial Unixes.

As a platform, we're finding some interesting differences. Compared to
Netscape 4.05 on a PPro 180 with 128M ram running WinNT, Netscape 4.05 on my
IBM/Cyrix M2-200 / 64M ram running RH5.1/X/KDE is significantly faster on
all operations, especially: window draw time, and TCP/IP throughput. Our app
involves a total of 30K lines of javascript in the frontend, and 10K lines
of perl in the backend. Each screen involves maximum 5K lines of
Javascript.

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