On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > 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. > -- I've worked in ad agencies that had huge networks of Macs -- more than `1000 at BBDO Detroit. Problems were few and far between, non-existent for most users. But you have to have Mac IT people. You can't leave it to PC guys. Paul
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