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Posted by slb on August 11, 2006, 12:24 am
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If Steve Jobs said it, it must be true. Of course anything MS says must be a
lie. I'm
not an MS fan. I'm the CIO of a mid-size company with more than 1,000 desktops.
I have
three Macs in my marketing group. I also have a number of IBM I Series servers
(AS400).
They never go down.
Find me a 100% compatible open source replacement for Office and IE and I'll move
everyone over in a heartbeat. Don't give me the current crap of close enough.
I've got
sophisticated users that have extensive macros and VBA code that must convert
seamlessly. I've got a major third-party software implementation project that
uses IE's
engine and ActiveX controls on the client. I've been through the bin of every
alternative we could find. NOTHING WAS 100% compatible.
I also spent several years with a worldwide credit card company. The systems that
couldn't be down --- ran on IBM mainframes. Again the only Macs were in the
advertising
and marketing groups.
I'm off the soapbox. You can't argue with zealots.
Golden California Girls wrote:
> Barnabas Collins wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:22:53 -0400, Margaret Wilson
> >
> >> HeyBub wrote:
> >>
> >>> It is simply not possible to "have met a lot [of Apple users]"
> >> Well even if I concede on that one (which I don't), it would be another
> >> reason why there's not much software out there for Macs....
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Margaret
> >
> > My understnding is Apple has 10% of the desktop market.
>
> IIRC at WWDC a couple days ago Steve, in the Keynote, said something like Apple
> shipped 17% of all laptops computers and Apple was the only computer
> manufacturer who was shipping more units, everyone else had a decline.
> Obviously Apple is grabbing market share from somebody.
>
> > That having been said Apple if it were smart could bury
> > Microsoft by playing up the advantages of the
> > Mac over the pc (plug and play that works,
> > an OS that doesn't lock up every hour,
> > and viruses/etc. Mac has what one virus now?
> >
> > Apple has one distinct advantage. It ain't
> > Bill Gates with a huge target on his back.
>
> As for which OS has more App's, all the Doze people forget OS X is Unix. Every
> Unix App made since, what the 1950's?, is a Mac App. The sheer number of them
> totally buries Doze.
>
> And for all those I'll never use a Mac people, you better not use a credit card
> then, because the master data center for credit card transactions doesn't have
a
> single Doze machine in it. They can't afford the down time. (more from the
keynote)
>
> As for speed, well the BONIC stats are pretty revealing. After you toss away
> the top couple of machines like AS400's you come to a whole bunch of Power Mac
> machines. Then there is a smattering of Doze machines, just enough to make you
> realize that there is a way to make an Intel chip run fast. Next up are the
> Intel Mac's. Never mind they are clocking 1/2 the speed of the top Doze
> machines, they are way faster. Since there are like 700,000 machines in the
> BONIC stats database it is a pretty good cross section of what's really out
there.
>
> Anyway you'awl party hearty and play safe and god forbid have unprotected
> computer sex if you use Doze!
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