On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:40 -0700, "Paul McNett" <[email protected]> wrote:

> iPhone and iPad are amazing. They are bridging the gap between "personal"
> and 
> "business".


Well, they're the usual Apple story of old ideas brilliantly executed
and marketed, that's for sure. Whatever about the 
tabs, Android is leaving the iPhone in the dust now.

> 
> We don't need Microsoft technology for anything anymore; you couldn't
> make that claim 
> in 1998.

>From a technical point of view, these days you might indeed not *need*
an MS platform to implement anything (if indeed you ever did),
but the sad fact remains that the vast majority of software that real
businesses use every day is just not present on any other platform. 
For example I'd love if there were 20 world-class ERP implementations
that ran natively on Ubuntu or OSX, but there just aren't. 

-- 
  Alan Bourke
  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm


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