Windows is good advice for the consultants who support it (was: Re: Good advice! (was: Re: [Ti] Windows compatable))

[Thomas Fulton]

In my experience, Autocad is a dinosaur even at version 2005 and a 
frustrating trial for even the most skilled operator . We have been 
running mac based cad and engineering apps for 15yrs now with great 
success. Vectorworks and Multiframe are stand out  apps in this regard. 
  Even with the potential issues concerning translation of dwgs they 
still make for a more efficient, stable and productive environment to 
work in.

Tom

  On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:02 AM, Chris Olson wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Glenn L. Austin wrote:
>
>> If people absolutely need to use Windows, it is because they are 
>> using some specialized, vertical-market application.
>
> AutoCAD isn't specialized vertical market.  It's the industry 
> defacto-standard design app for everything from mechanical design, to 
> civil design, to urban planning, to GIS.
>
> So where's the Mac alternative to AutoCAD?  Ashlar-Vellum?  
> Vectorworks?  HighDesign?  Don't make me laugh.  I got AutoCAD R13 in 
> my Sun SPARCstation on Solaris, but I can't get it for Mac OS X.  And 
> I can run AutoCAD 2005 in my ThinkPad but I can't run it on my 
> PowerBook in VirtualPC because VPC is limited to 512 MB RAM.
>
> Or how about POS terminals?  They're not specialized vertical market.  
> They're universal, and most of them run on Windows.  Where's the Mac 
> software to do that?
>
> Or how about this market leading software on the Mac that's supposed 
> to be superior?  Let's look at accounting.  Intuit Quickbooks is the 
> defacto standard.  The Mac version of Quickbooks is a poor excuse for 
> what you get on Windows at the same price, all the way from the Aatrix 
> Top Pay module, to lack of multi-user version, to phone support at 
> Intuit.  And this follows right down to the consumer-level Quicken 
> application too.
>
> And only Windows developers use their customer base to squash bugs?  
> Hah!  I got AlchemyTV DVR in my PowerMac G5, which is buggier than a 
> hot August night at release 2.0!  Meanwhile you got reams of Windows 
> DVR software to choose from, any one of them better than anything 
> that's available for the Mac, including EyeTV.
>
> Platform evangelism is great.  But sometimes you have to cut thru the 
> bull and call the shots for what they are.
> -- 
> Chris
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