Setting aside the question of which platform is better, I'm not so sure that it's always cheaper to buy software for 37,000 computers. If a piece of software costs $100, you could hire a programmer or two and save a few million.
Back on the platform issue, your claims about what the Mac can't do is short on specifics. Give us an example. Perhaps a better solution is available that you are not aware of.
you don't do this for a living, do you?
I can hire "a programmer or two" to do what 100s of other companies do with thousands of programmers? Doesn't add up.
Back on the platform issue, your claims about what the Mac can't do is short on specifics. Give us an example. Perhaps a better solution is available that you are not aware of.
I said explicitely that the Mac can do everything a PC can do, but I can't buy it off the shelf, the way I can for PCs. How many process control reporting systems are out there to buy for the Mac? How about ones that apply to my industry? For what you can buy for the Mac you can argue "better" till Hell freezes over. As far as available, off the shelf code, it's not even in the game.