[P1] Missing in Mac vs PC arguments

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 9:07 -0500 05/11/03, Jack Rodgers wrote:
>My one paragraph mention of the new 17" windows laptops devolved 
>into the usual Mac is superior and windows stinks replies (none of 
>which were mine).
>
>I have been thinking about this and one thing that is clear is the 
>narrowness of the point of view with very few diehard Mac users 
>indicating they have any knowledge (some do) of what goes on in the 
>corporate environment and how more advanced and complicated some of 
>the corporate techniques and hardware are. For instance, how many 
>mac users have a CD or tape carousel consisting of thousands of 
>archived CDs or tapes that they can access remotely? Or run an email 
>server for 5000 employees? Or have 100 server racks? Or deal in 
>1,000,000,000,000 byte databases? Or have to protect a $20 Billion 
>dollar company's data assets from thieves?

You have a very valid point, Jack. I am wondering to what degree 
corporate use of a particular platform drives personal desktop use 
among its employees? If a major corporation were to use Macs instead 
of Windows/PCs, would the employees also tend to favor Macs?

My brother works at Raytheon which uses mostly PCs (exceptions:  the 
various departments which use graphics fight to keep their Macs). He 
travels a lot for the company and accesses Raytheon's site daily with 
a PC laptop; he maintains that even if he wanted to use a Mac, he 
couldn't since he is forced to speak the same language as the rest of 
the company (e.g. exchange files, online conferencing).

Similarly, people might lean more toward PCs if their corporation 
uses them and pretty much forces its employees to become familiar 
with them. People tend to stick to what they know.
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