I fear you are approaching the wall that my non-profit smashed into
headlong a little more than a year ago. I knew that a PC putsch was in
the works, and so took a lot of my personal time to explain, to anyone
who would listen, the need to buy RAM and upgrade to OS X, and what a
remarkable advance it really was. I wrote our chief executive an ESSAY
on OS and third-party software development, vis-a-vis our FileMaker
database and predominantly CRT iMac, OS 9 network. I took great care
to explain why street-corner PC contractors were not going to help our
organization.
So of course, they hired SymQuest and bought a MS Exchange server! #-o
(I *am* just an assistant.)
Now, the remote staff have crappy web mail instead of email. No one is
able to utilize the co-scheduling capabilities of Outlook, even though
that was always the justification (to workers, at least) for the whole
fiasco. Oh -- and we just got our first virus! :D>
Now that things are starting to shake out in budget planning, perhaps
somebody went back and dug up my prophetic emails. This week, a G5
server suddenly showed up, and they're working on upgrading the
database. Not so fast, cried the staff at the latest full staff
meeting. Where's our email? Where's our shared calendars?
In the future, we'll be trying to find a platform-independent solution,
they said, but it will be less disruptive to change one thing at a
time. :))
I again pointed out the need to upgrade to OS X; but also, I encouraged
them to make Outlook work. Not only because I'm sure it cost a lot.
More importantly, I *know* they still haven't learned their lesson. If
people "make the switch" without understanding why, then the lack of a
PC becomes the excuse for every subsequent technical problem. That's
how my organization got into trouble in the first place. It's just
another way for the pointy-haired boss to evade responsibility.
So my advice is: suck it up, friend. Buy the RAM, buy OS X, buy new
applications, even buy new Macs. And hire qualified help if you need
to. Because much, much worse is just a phone call away.
--
Thad
On Jun 5, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Tom Wilkinson wrote:
We have an OS 9 network attached to a G4 server at work. We ran a
couple of OS X computers with limited success. We could see them, but
then if we created aliases based on shared folders, they would stop
working.
But the big problem is that lately, the OS X computers just hang when
trying to connect to the OS 9 server.
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