>
>>The bottom line, though, is if what you have serves your purposes,
>>stick with it. I talked my best friend out of upgrading to OS X
>>because she doesn't need it. It would have been a waste of money for
>>her.
>
>I don't get why more people don't think like this. A computer is a tool,
>just like anything else. You set it to your needs, and use it the way YOU
>need it. If OS X helps your needs, great... if System 6 running on an SE
>does the job... stick with it. No one is forcing people to buy anything
>new (ok, well, MS is trying with their new license schemes... but MS
>lives in its own reality).
This is the stance that *I* have taken - until last month ---
Apple is pushing us into a situation where we will, eventually (sooner
rather than later) - and prematurely in my opinion (but Ill you can guess
that!) - be foreced to be running X.
As new boxes will NOT boot to 9 - and NO all OS 9 apps do not work with X
in classic (email er is a mild example).
We will at the point when a new (non 9 boot) machine comes in the door be
forced to either:
purchase a complete set of software licenses for it (that run under X) or
upgrade one set of existing licenses to X - either way there is (as I
mentioned before) a significant $$ out lay.
Currently we use keyserver to handle licensing, so upgrading one set of
application licenses for X means less available licenses for other users.
And the cost of buying a full set of apps for X will be prohibative -
probably over $10,000 (there are 2 apps we use which are $2500/ea)
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will will disable us from descerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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