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| Time: 13:31 EST/18:31 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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If yours is like most IT departments, you probably aren't deploying Macintosh systems in large numbers. And if you're deploying them at all, you're doing so in niche spaces such as graphic arts, multimedia and publishing. But the truth is that Mac OS has changed quite a bit in the past few years, and today's Apple systems offer a reasonable alternative to Wintel systems for many mainstream uses and are often best-of-breed tools for tasks such as desktop publishing, multimedia and other content creation. OS X, code-named Jaguar, and the recently announced successor called Panther are rock-solid Unix at the core, with Apple's elegant user interface on top. But if you plan on deploying them, you'll need to overcome your preconceptions regarding three myths about the Mac that still linger. | ||
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| #1 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 8/19/2003 1:32:52 PM |
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The second myth is that there's a lack of software available.... The occasional lack of a specific application might hold back some deployments, but most organizations will never hit that wall.
This is the oft-repeated Mac myth. Here is the reality. I've worked at a number of different environments, and the Mac would not have been a viable solution at any of them. I even worked at an ad agency, and after switching to 50/50 Mac and Windows, they were switching some of the Macs back. Of course, we used Macs for some of the content creation, but that had more to do with user choice and what they felt comfortable using rather than an IT decision. Going all-Mac was not an option at all, because there are always those apps that simply don't exist on the Mac platform--yes, apps that have no counterpart on the Mac (off the top of my head, I can count 16 apps we use now that have no Mac equivalent). Then there are those other apps that have a multitude of competitors on the PC and a couple of options on the Mac, and yes, you could probably convert--but at a cost, both in terms of conversion expense and of a change in functionality. For example, take accounting packages. On the Mac, yes, you can find a few. On the PC, though, you can find one specific to your field--something that's a much better match, and doesn't require a lot of customization. We're very happy with Windows XP... I'm not sure why these articles always imply that we'd be so much better off with Mac. I really don't see any compelling reason to switch. All I see are increased desktop costs, a huge initial conversion and training cost, software less suited for our tasks, poorer software management solutions (Group Policy is amazing), and fewer options in the future. And that's only if we switched the type of business we were in, because the type of business we're doing requires apps that you simply can't find on the Mac. |
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