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Re: W32.Winux virus on Linux machines




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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