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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.

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  1. MacOSX with all Microsoft Software ... 'different' by manyoso · · Score: 1, Redundant
    This was a very disappointing little article. He is basically saying that his Microsoft Office Suite kept crashing for some unknown reason so he decided to 'switch' to the same office suite only under MacOSX.
    "Needless to say, following these tests, I was convinced. I went out and purchased an OS X laptop and have been using it ever since. As of this writing, I am on the road in the UK (I live in San Jose, California) and am using Microsoft Outlook to e-mail this back to corporate headquarters over our Windows VPN. Over the last two weeks I've been presenting to BlueArc customers using PowerPoint with standard corporate presentations templates, without any modifications. So far, there have been no issues and nothing that would lead anybody to think I'm using anything other than a regular PC. No blue screens either."


    Yah, real original. If he truly wished to think different he should have looked at alternatives to MS Office. I don't see anything very strong about switching to another platform only to turn around and use all the same application software.
  2. Free Alternative by Beatbyte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is anyone else thinking that this guy could have had one of his IT people build a laptop/desktop with linux based stuff (free and open) for this? Without shelling out top dollar for an Apple laptop?

    Obviously the pre-built system (hard+software combo) won because its already working (and sexy, as he put it), but could you not build this with KDE/GNOME and OpenOffice + Evolution + whatever else?

    I've done it myself, why couldn't this guy?

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