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Yes. Your boss may be able to weasel out of paying hourly employees, but your boss is paying for the boot and reboot times of all the FTE. Your boss can't opt
by biohacker42 18y ago
Yes.
Your boss may be able to weasel out of paying hourly employees, but your boss is paying for the boot and reboot times of all the FTE.
Your boss can't opt out of that. Which is why your organization should strive to configure all machines to be fast and response.
Not just at boot time, but all the time.
Further more, if you are developing a multi-platform application you should get a machine for each platform and a KVM switch.
But alas the company I currently work for, is penny wise and pound foolish.
They are "saving" money on desktops by giving the devs multi-boot machines, that require rebooting to switch platforms. And the developers are by no means cheap.
Penny wise and pound foolish is extremely common in the corporate world.
And a few companies like Toyota that are pound SMART, eat their competitors' lunches.
- cstejerean 18y agoUsing multi-boot to test on multiple platforms sounds painful, but giving every developer multiple machines and a KVM sounds wasteful. Finding a way to leverage virtualization would be much better IMHO.
- cabalamat 18y ago> But alas the company I currently work for, is penny wise and pound foolish. They are "saving" money on desktops by giving the devs multi-boot machines, that require rebooting to switch platforms. And the developers are by no means cheap. At one of my previous employers, developers didn't even have their own machine, they had to share from a pool. And the company periodically sent spies round to our department to make sure all the machines were being used; if they weren't, we were obviously over-equipped and they could take one of the Sparcstations away...