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Čtvrtek červenec 28, 2005

NetBeans Volleyball Party

There was a nice volleyball party yesterday with our dear managers from US + some extra people like Solaris engineers with Adam Leventhal (the Dtrace guy). Lukas has blogged about it (he organized the volleyball tournament).

Quality team surprised, we scored second, even though our best player Jiri ended in hospital before the tournament started. Kudos to the Quality team - Marian, Karel, Michal and Zajo. I was refusing to play but they got me in front of the net after the tournament. The result is that my leg aches a lot today. As we say in Czech, sport leads to perfect health.

No compromising photos from me this time. I'm trying to be a good guy :-)

Should I Be Ashamed for Using WinXP at Sun?

I was challenged today in the corridor: "You've blogged that you have a new W2100z worstation but you don't write that you have Windows XP installed on it". So here I blog about it. Yes I am using Windows XP at Sun and I am not ashamed for it!

Why am I doing this? What operating system is used by majority of NetBeans users? Which OS-specific bugs have the biggest impact? Windows. The second most widely used OS by NetBeans users is Linux. Thus I have RedHat Fedora 4 on my second partition. Do I use Solaris and Mac? Yes, I do use them often, through remote access.

I apologize to all opensource evangelists, to Solaris engineers and to all the people from the anti-Microsoft world. I've been using Linux on desktop for five years, since RedHat 6.1 and Debian 2.0 in last company where all of our solutions were based on Linux. The funny thing is that on my Windows XP almost all of software is opensource. I use Firefox (I really don't like IE), Thunderbird, Gaim, Gimp, OpenOffice... and of course NetBeans.

I'm using Windows because I want to make sure NetBeans editor works on Windows. Is that a bad thing to do? Most NetBeans developers don't use Windows. Think about our users. I wish all of them would be using Solaris or other opensource OS but the reality is different. Hopefully this may change in the future and then I will change my desktop OS :-)

Disclaimer: The contents of my blog represent my personal opinions which may differ from official views of my employer, Sun Microsystems.