Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Enterprise CTO Switches to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the rethink-after-you-reinstall-too dept.

louismg writes "BlueArc CTO Geoff Barrall, using a PC day in and day out, found things becoming progressively more difficult as they increased in complexity. After one final straw, he sought out an alternative, and switched to Mac OS X -- in a corporate environment. His column, titled 'Rethink Before You Reinstall' documents the challenges facing Mac OS X in enterprise, and how he has changed his views." We've not had a switcher/MS-bashing/Apple rules/etc. article in a little while, so here you are.

3 of 160 comments (clear)

  1. Re:MacOSX with all Microsoft Software ... 'differe by Otter · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And yet -- it solved his problem, didn't it? He has the applications he wants without the support issues that were making him crazy. Truth is, Microsoft makes some really nice products when they're not tied to that awful OS and when they follow Apple UI guidelines.

    _Your_ problem may be that he's using a Microsoft product, but that's not what _his_ problem was.

    --
    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  2. A shame an idiot wrote the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As a systems admin who recently switched to Apple, I thought that this story might be worthy of forwarding to my boss. Unfortunately the article doesn't address anything of particular interest.

    For technical people, the reasons we use our computers go beyond simply writing Word documents or opening Excel spreadsheets. The average clod in a company though doesn't care what their hardware is, what their operating system is, they just want to know that Office is there.

    Therefore an article that simply talks about how Office works on a non-PC platform is nothing worth getting a boner over. If he'd spoken about Keynote, addresses the advantages of an open file format, spoken about how his company had developed software to write customized presentations based on info pulled live from their database or something - hooray. Perhaps he could have mentioned how easy it is to produce PDF versions of pretty much anything - which in this cross-platform era is a good thing since your document will look the same anywhere. I think my point is understood by this stage.

    Me thinks that this whole article is a way to get people to his company's website.

    1. Re:A shame an idiot wrote the article by dbrutus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The problem he was having was dll hell. The fix he instituted was using Mac OS X bundles which have all the code self-contained inside a double click to launch the app directory.

      Pair this article with a technical description of bundles and why they're nifty and you have a useful 1-2 punch.