Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[Tony Alfrey]

Net Llama! wrote:
> Quote of the day, in the NYTimes:
> "... the market-share figures includes sales of computers to corporations, 
> which buy hundreds of PC's at a time. And the corporate world long ago 
> standardized on Windows. It makes no difference how superior Mac OS X or 
> Linux may be; the world's I.T. staffs will switch their entire companies 
> away from Windows the day Rush Limbaugh votes for Hillary Clinton.

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Many moons ago (about 200 to be exact) when I worked for TRW and PCs 
were several orders of magnitude worse than now, and the first Macs had 
just come out, literally every scientist in the building demanded a Mac. 
  So they ended up with a Mac and a PC on their desk (with a VAX here 
and there).  So they had sufficient pull at that time to demand the 
tools that they wanted to use.  But these sorts of places are few and 
far between.  Recently I was told that I was not allowed to put a Linux 
partition on a PC at a place for which I was a consultant.  But the IT 
guy was too dumb to know that Linux was on the box anyway.  He just 
couldn't figure out why the disk "seemed" to be smaller than it was 
supposed to be.

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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"