On 2007-10-24 6:18 AM, James Greenidge wrote:
I can tell you right now as a SB member that here in Queens, New York
-- which would be the third largest city in the U.S. if it wasn't part
of New York City --
... and as an solutions provider who built the database app that managed
the installation of computers into *24,000 classrooms* (we are talking
about a school system with ONE MILLION STUDENTS, folks) under various
funding programs in the late 90s/early 00s -- and Macs represented at
least 50% of the purchases. I can tell you that city-wide many of those
G3's, even, are still in use. And in my daughters' high school and in
other schools I've visited, I can report that you might find, maybe, one
or two MacIntels in classrooms and technology rooms, probably the media
carts (roaming carts of higher-end hardware & software).
Further, my company serves several non-profit orgs (NPO/NGO) and three
of them are Mac-only ... their equipment is retired computers donated by
publishing houses (and the like) and not one of them is an Intel.
This is the computer culture in the education and NPO sectors. Computers
are used until they die are are not generally replaced sooner.
IMO OOo will be shooting itself in the foot even announcing a PPC
phase-out before Leopard becomes a dominate system and end up
disaffecting current and potential users.
+1
kazar
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