On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:40 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-30 20:07 , Adam Maas wrote: >> >> 1000 stations is small compared to the Windows network I'm on, which >> is well over 20,000 machines across North America on the same Active >> Directory Domain. > > big corpses are a minority of jobs and a tiny minority of the number of > business (for example, the first hard statistic i found was EU 2006, 99.8% > of businesses & 67.4% of workforce was 249 employees or fewer) > > succeeding in very large networks is a worthy challenge, and it would be > interesting to get some real facts about Mac vs. Windows ROI in such > environments (networks of 20k machines are the last place one should make > decisions based on anecdote), but this is hardly the most important > computing challenge to most businesses >
But large organizations are a much larger fraction of the office computer market than they are of the total labour market, and also they drive both business software development and the choice of platform for smaller businesses due to interoperability concerns (If your huge vendor/customer only uses Office, you're pretty much stuck with it yourself, or they won't be able to reliably read the files you send and vice versa)> -Adam -- 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.
