Re: W32.Winux virus on Linux machines

["Ruchir Tewari" <ruchir_tewari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1. There are already enough commercial IDEs and development environments 
> for
> Linux, offered by
> mainstream companies like Metrowerks and Borland/ Inprise.

I know what's available, having used linux as a development
platform for over 2 years. Having tried what's available,
I prefer to stick with gdb and vi/emacs as do most linux developers
I know. Tools like Purify/Quantify/Clearcase don't have a linux presence 
yet. An IDE/debugger with the success of VC++ is absent on linux.  I 
probabaly would'nt use the latter anyway, if it were available, but it makes 
a big difference to the large number of application programmers who could 
potentially be writing linux apps.

> What do you have to say to the fact that
> all the major RDBMS
> systems - Oracle, Sybase, et al, are available?

I was primarily responsible for one of their ports
to linux, for starters ;-)

I was mainly referring to desktop software, vs. server software.
> 90% of desktop software is written and run on windows.
Would you be calling StarOffice or Wine ports of windows applications 
production quality ?
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