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To: Swordmaker

The IT department where I work won’t support or allow Macs or Linux machines for the simple reason that they can’t control them. This is one of those paranoid locked-down shops where they bind everyone up so tight they need a tech to turn the page as they’re reading.

Mass Global Policy’s, SMS, Cisco Draconian firewall, They take state of the science hardware and by the time they are finished, 12-15 minute boot times are common.

They won’t allow Macs because they don’t understand them...


21 posted on 04/22/2008 7:22:29 AM PDT by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: rockrr
12-15 minute boot times are common.

You need a new IT dept. :-) I'm a windows user, and our environment is 100% Windows. If I had 12-15 minute boot times - anywhere I've worked - my boss would be looking to put my head on his desk.

I *do* see a need for mixed environments in some cases, but by and large...Mac vs PC is just a matter of personal preference. Outside of art/graphics/etc, it's hard to make a business case for Macs.

More to the point, in all of the mixed environments that I've worked in the past, Macs generated a dispropotionately huge percentage of the tickets. We're talking 2% of the organization's computers generating 10% of the tickets. Not sure if it's their design, or the fact that people think they can use them like a home system...and break them more often.

...waiting to be called vile names by Mac folks....

22 posted on 04/22/2008 8:14:00 AM PDT by wbill
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To: rockrr
The IT department where I work won’t support or allow Macs or Linux machines for the simple reason that they can’t control them. This is one of those paranoid locked-down shops where they bind everyone up so tight they need a tech to turn the page as they’re reading.

Same here, but our network security is dictated by the FDIC.

The other issue involved is that using Macs locks you into a sole source hardware vendor.

56 posted on 04/23/2008 9:36:01 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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