> It's your job to provide IT/network support. Yeah? So what?
Tom's point was that he would have to hire additional staff to handle PCs. Your experience notwithstanding, my experience proves him decidedly wrong. > It's your job to provide IT/network support. Those of us with small > businesses can't afford IT staff or outside services. The computers are > tools that we use in our businesses and must work seamlessly with as > little tech support as possible. That's why we use Macs, even when we're > forced to use Windows. > > That's the REAL world of small business. We ARE a small business. We also have the needs of a larger enterprise. And we do it with 2 guys. In 3 locations. Me and a DBA. We run the entire thing on Dell hardware, Windows, Office and MS server products. With 99.99% uptime and near-zero hardware issues. Dell hardware, which will run practically forever, costs me a fraction of what comparable Apple hardware would cost us, with a warranty that gets me a tech with a part on-site for any rare hardware problem, not a schlep to the genius at the mall (in Delaware, right?). We get charity pricing from MS, which costs us about 10% of retail, often less. Is that REAL enough for you? > Even when I worked for a Swiss multinational corporation, many of their > European employees, scientists and managers brought their own Macs to > the US, while the locals were stuck with Windows by an IT department > full of MS "engineers". I would bet that if you gave 10 people the exact same recipe for a cake, you would 10 different cakes of varying taste, texture and appearance. Some would likely be inedible. Not everyone is cut out to be a baker or a pastry chef. The same goes for IT. GIGO rules. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
