Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware?

Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by cosgroveb on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:46AM (#2781119)

>If all you're doing is writing PHP/Python/Ruby in vim/emacs and running a local Apache/nginx and possibly a MySQL server then it almost doesn't matter what hardware you have... apart from the monitor.

OK. If you're developing on a local instance of Apache/nginx sure. But as a professional web developer I usually have a fully virtualized dev environment running. That means, at least one of our app servers, our database server, and possibly a Windows VM (for testing in IE - usually I can save this for when I'm in the office and have all this stuff running on another machine).

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Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by regularfry on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @06:02PM (#2783317)

Yep, this is true. At the very least I've got to be able to knock up an instance of the server OS version quickly without interfering with the rest of my desktop config.

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