LabVIEW
LabVIEW on Linux
@ToeCutter wrote:
Would love to hear from someone at NI if current sales trends bear this hunch out.
I have no actual data on this, but I'm not sure how much NI cares if their user base for Linux goes from 0.5% to 0.6%. Maybe it is just the industry I am in, but in my career Linux, and Mac have never been even considered for the OS that a test system runs on.
Customers assume Windows. They need it for IT purposes, and domain control. They also need it for their tools they use, like MS Office suite, MatLab, SolidWorks, SCC, Firewall and Anti-Virus software, etc. Some of these programs have Linux versions some don't, and forcing their IT department to support entire new OSs is a major effort. They usually only want to support one version of Windows at a time, let alone another eco system of OSs.
From an academic perspective I have often wondering if I should try LabVIEW on Linux in my spare time, but it would be for fun, since as I said I doubt I'll ever need it for work.
@ToeCutter wrote:
I just hope MS will continue forcing a crippled desktop experience ala Windows 8 on users, in which case God willing they will sink themselves and do us all a favour.
Yeah we could probably spend quite a while discussing these topics, even without adding LabVIEW to the mix. I have yet to make a tester that runs on Windows 8, but I do have lots of Windows 8 experience at home and I could make it work without too much trouble if the customer asked. But I don't see that happening any time, just like how I never had to deploy a tester on a Windows Vista machine, I assume my customers (like many IT departments) will just skip Windows 8. Now if windows strikes out twice in a row who knows what the OS eco system will look like in a few years.
@Niquist- some interesting info there. I'm glad to see Linux being pushed in other countries. It can only be a good thing. I'm only an occasional games player, but I was pleasantly surprised to see some AAA games coming to Linux via Valve's 'Steam' system. (Sorry, this has nothing to do with LV 
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@Hooovahh- I doubt they'll make a second strike. I'm coming to believe screwing up every second release of Win is a long term sales plan, the idea being that if they kept it uniform, everyone would realise there's not much improvement or innovation with each release.
@NIquist wrote:
what happened to 9?
People wrote software that behaved differently if it were on Windows 95 or Windows 98. To catch this they wrote the software to say if the version starts with 9 then expect DOS to exist and do stuff differently. If the new Windows was called 9.0 these old pieces of software which might even be 16bit, would try to run in an old DOS mode.
I have no citation right now but that was a reason I heard.
