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http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=744
The Anti-OS X Conspiracy
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
August 1st 2002
Slow deployment of OS X may be result of your IT staff: they''re running scared.
This little gem hit my inbox from our IT unit today and I thought I''d share it with
you:
"OS X.
Please be advised that Apple�s OS X is not at this stage supported by the IT Unit. It
is being explored with a view to its inclusion in the Standard Operating Environment
that we work with. However, at the moment we are not rolling it out with new machines
and advise against its installation by members of staff on to their computers. "
No further explanation was given. Was this decision taken because OS X works
seamlessly with all existing Windows and Mac OS machines? Because you simply plug into
the Ethernet network and go? Or possibly because it doesn''t crash?
Let me set it up for you. Divisions can choose whether they use Mac or Windows, or
even a mixture of both, according to their needs. My division, like most, is cheap and
wants as many workstations as it can get on its limited IT budget. Obviously, it
plunks for Windows boxes (of a rather white box variety, let it be said). One other
guy has an iMac and I refuse point blank to work on anything but my PowerBook G3.
Interestingly enough in our so-called ''secure environment'', which has password acess
to mail, internet and intranet, these things are simply unnecessary on a Mac. It just
logs on and has never asked me for a password in 4 years.
Once TCP/IP setting and proxy info were entered, My OS X PowerBook just screamed on
the 100bT network, connected to a T1. Actually, even my ancient PowerBook 5300 with
10bT didn''t fare badly at all.
All networked printers just worked out of the box (an HP LJ 4M and a Color LJ 4500 on
the LAN). If I want to gain precedence on print jobs and I happen to have the
Wallstreet there rather than the Lombard, a straight LocalTalk connection to the 4M is
all that''s needed to annoy people.
We ran into a major problem the other day when a CD of uncompresed Photoshop TIFF
images (each about 20MB) was given to us for approval before being sent to the
printers. No Windows machine had either Photoshop or any graphics apps to view the
pics. Nor did too many have the memory to cope with them. And, as I was pulled in to
help, I had no idea what any Windows graphics apps were called. As it happened, I
didn''t have my CD ROM with me, only an expansion bay hard drive.
A quick trip to the iMac with a rapid download of BigPicture (or Graphic Converter,
take your pick) solved the problem. Pictures viewed. Accepted or rejected. At the
printers before 5.00pm.
Plus, since the CD (a hybrid) came from a graphics house, I wonder what would have
happened if it had been a Mac-only CD? Headless chicken syndrome was highly evident
enough as it was.
As ever, a Mac saved the day. My boss is even getting interested in this "I Can''t
Believe There''re No Viruses" business, as his entire hard drive and BIOS were wiped
out totally by a particularly violent strain earlier this year, necessitating a
completely new computer (and the loss of large chunks of work).
Sgh. No, hell, you wouldn''t want to install OS X, would you? Can''t have users taking
back control of their machines. Can''t have users being independent of IT services.
Can''t have IT staff [gulp] reduced.
(The End).
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