[mauricemir]

Amen brother/sister. You should ALWAYS be working on a dev server set up identically to the test and live servers.

At one place we insisted on having machines from the same production run and ideally all the DASD (disks) would be from the same batch.

[brianwawok]

Eh. Sometimes variety is nice. Exposes some new bugs sometime.

If your tools are sane, dev how you want.

[mauricemir]

Sorry if your developing software professionally you DO NOT take risks like that.