<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 18-Jan-06, at 11:41 AM, Glenn L. Austin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Most IT departments are a lost cause. Having been around them most of my career, they are about Job Security(tm), first and foremost. If another platform came along that had all of the software they needed but required more people to support, and they could justify it financially (ie. the hardware is SO much cheaper), they'd switch in a heartbeat.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Exactly. There should not be any *<B><I>need</I></B>* for an IT department, and all the costs associated with it.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(Admittedly that's still not the case with Macs, but that ought to be the aim anyway.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>