Getting Hung Up on the Apple-Microsoft War

[James McDonald]

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.
> After all, the I.T. people know where their bread is buttered. If Macs are 
> indeed less trouble-prone and complex than Windows PC's, they're doomed in 
> corporations; the last thing the I.T. guys want to do is obsolete 
> themselves."
>   
Hmm I would love to get rid of most of the first and second line support 
and simply have a few 3rd line support people. Having to wade through 
the current coporate support structures before you get someone who knows 
what they are talking about is a fact of life for most windows shops.