On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:03 PM, CheekyGeek <cheekyg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As an IT person in the business world... > > There you go. > Windows?PCs provide IT people with a great deal of job security by > creating a heck of a lot of more confused & discombobulated users and > hardware support issues. > You have a horse in this race, but one that makes the point opposite > the one you attempted to make. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, NE >
Actually, Windows is popular in the business world because it integrates well and has a solid network backend and Mac's are a royal PITA to deal with in large numbers due to the primitive management tools and lack of any reasonable groupware solutions. Mac OS X Server is something of a joke for any use other than as a *nix server doing web/mail/dns. In this day and age there's little in the way of hardware support issues. You have a standard configuration from the vendor and a software image. Load the image, drop the box, you're done. If it breaks, re-image. That doesn't work, swap for another box and have the vendor come in and service the broken machine. A users files are in their profile so they come right over when they login. Machine swaps are simple and the only part that takes any time is the user's first login (as their roaming profile copies over then). Mac's simply don't 'Just Work' in large network environments. In reality they require far more support time and cost in large deployments than PC's because Apple has nothing comparable to Active Directory and Exchange. No corporate IT department has enough budget or headcount to survive creating work for itself, so Macs are right out for large organizations. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
