It matters in the context of scaling the enterprise and not individual. A lone wolf programmer could use whatever rig and be productive. In a large team envir

It matters in the context of scaling the enterprise and not individual. A lone wolf programmer could use whatever rig and be productive. In a large team environment, meetings have to be scheduled ( Outlook+ Exchange), SRS documents have to be changed and tracked ( Word), shared ( dropbox/ sharepoint) etc. etc. Having a PC enables everyone to work well in a large groups without management thinking very hard about issues like systemes integration etc. You could say that individual choice is sacrificed for the greater good --- team productivity. With VMware , everyone can get their own Linux or Solaris based test environment.