Comments on: My Journey to Macland http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html Ruby on Rails Consulting and Application Development Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:31:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jesper http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html/comment-page-1#comment-17 Jesper Thu, 18 May 2006 10:20:49 +0000 http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html#comment-17 Well, most applications are either available on Mac or a (better) substitute can be found. You can run Office and Entourage (Outlook for Mac) if you like. Personally I'm using Gmail, so that wasn't an issue for me. As for the Oracle related tools, the biggest issue for me has been not having an Oracle database running locally - you should be able to do it, but Oracle doesn't have a download for OS X on Intel (yet). You can run JDeveloper and SQL Developer, but unfortunately SQL Developer still has a long way before being able to compete with TOAD. I mostly work with Oracle Portal, so I spend a great deal of my time in Firefox, which is also available for Mac. So far I'm a happy switcher, having a great looking desktop and a Unix command-line only a click away is just awesome. If you really want Oracle supporting OS X on Intel, please write Mark Townsend (mark.townsend@...) at Oracle and let him know -- he's the product manager for Oracle XE. Well, most applications are either available on Mac or a (better) substitute can be found. You can run Office and Entourage (Outlook for Mac) if you like. Personally I’m using Gmail, so that wasn’t an issue for me.
As for the Oracle related tools, the biggest issue for me has been not having an Oracle database running locally – you should be able to do it, but Oracle doesn’t have a download for OS X on Intel (yet). You can run JDeveloper and SQL Developer, but unfortunately SQL Developer still has a long way before being able to compete with TOAD.
I mostly work with Oracle Portal, so I spend a great deal of my time in Firefox, which is also available for Mac.
So far I’m a happy switcher, having a great looking desktop and a Unix command-line only a click away is just awesome.

If you really want Oracle supporting OS X on Intel, please write Mark Townsend (mark.townsend@...) at Oracle and let him know—he’s the product manager for Oracle XE.

]]> By: Karsten Birch-Johansen http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html/comment-page-1#comment-16 Karsten Birch-Johansen Thu, 18 May 2006 07:34:23 +0000 http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html#comment-16 Hmmm i was actually thinking about, a few day ago, if it would be someting to consider - to throw out my windows - and migrate to Mac. Got from it ....... and then i read you blog. How about all your outlook, oracle, web stuff - does it work - or have you encountered any problems yet ? Hmmm i was actually thinking about, a few day ago, if it would be someting to consider – to throw out my windows – and migrate to Mac. Got from it ….... and then i read you blog. How about all your outlook, oracle, web stuff – does it work – or have you encountered any problems yet ?

]]> By: Jesper http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html/comment-page-1#comment-15 Jesper Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:26:21 +0000 http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html#comment-15 Yeah, won't be log before I'm preaching the words of L. Ron Jobs to everyone ;) Cupertino looks great. I immediately installed one of the Firefox themes you wrote about. With this and the 1.5.0.2 release, Firefox is looking really good on the Mac. See you at Reboot! Yeah, won’t be log before I’m preaching the words of L. Ron Jobs to everyone ;)

Cupertino looks great. I immediately installed one of the Firefox themes you wrote about. With this and the 1.5.0.2 release, Firefox is looking really good on the Mac.

See you at Reboot!

]]> By: Jacob Bøtter http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html/comment-page-1#comment-14 Jacob Bøtter Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:15:49 +0000 http://productive.dk/2006/04/07/my-journey-to-macland.html#comment-14 Good to hear happy new mac user stories :-) Just wanted to let you know there's a lot of good mac tips at http://www.cupertino.dk (disclaimer: I am one of the blogger providing the tips). Found our blog on the list of attendees at Reboot, looking forward to seeing you there! Good to hear happy new mac user stories :-)

Just wanted to let you know there’s a lot of good mac tips at http://www.cupertino.dk (disclaimer: I am one of the blogger providing the tips). Found our blog on the list of attendees at Reboot, looking forward to seeing you there!

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