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Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by absconditus on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @01:34PM (#2782035)
What exactly would be gained by using VMs, assuming that there were no performance problem?
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Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by tedunangst on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @06:30PM (#2783426)
The boss gets to put "lead the conversion to a virtualized environment" on his resume. True story.
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Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by Joeri on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @04:56PM (#2783036)
Two reasons: - Easy migration between hardware configurations of a running system. - Snapshots to revert quicker after a failed upgrade / change. (Typically in addition to traditional backups.)
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Re:Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? by rch on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @08:48AM (#2785221)
My case was for a heterogeneous build environment, where separate environments needed to be maintained for different developer groups.

It would have been a good fit for VMs.. except for the performance.

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