Yes, I would work for a company like that. As long as this configuration of yours makes sense and isn't terribly onerous. In general, I would prefer to work fo

Yes, I would work for a company like that. As long as this configuration of yours makes sense and isn't terribly onerous. In general, I would prefer to work for a company that developed on linux. But that's because I'm a linux user. I've worked previously at companies that required development environment standardization on a Windows XP machine in the same way you're discussing. That was a little difficult for me. I'd never developed on XP before, I grew up on Mac and switched to Linux in college. But with some help from my coworkers I got used to it. And the standard configuration made sense. It was the configuration our app was intended to run in. The one our fairly small customer base all used. It wouldn't have made any sense to develop in my preferred environment because the application wouldn't have even run in my preferred environment! If your program runs live only on a system with your particular configuration, such as with web applications, then it makes perfect sense to have the development environment mimic it. In fact, I would want the development environments to minic it as closely as humanly possible. The testing environments on the other hand - are a different story. But I'll assume you have that ironed out too.