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New South Wales Traffic Authority Switches to Macs

Posted by pudge on from the whole-lotta-macs dept.

MacGyver writes ""In what may well be Apple Computer's largest coup in the Australian enterprise space, the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will deploy 1200 G4 iMacs across 140 registry offices." This isn't just a Mac story: the RTA statement noted, "The Apple rollout is a continuation of RTA usage of open standards-based software and systems. The further adoption of open source is being undertaken to provide more choice of vendors and to guarantee RTA systems are providing value for money."

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  1. All the colors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's bondi blue, uh....pink....and some other colors. Green too, I think. All the choices they could ever want. It's the most flexible system around.

  2. Re:Ummm... by NoodleSlayer · · Score: 0, Troll

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    Nubus
    The stupid little mac-monitor connecter, new and old versions of it. ...

    I'm sure if you gave me more time I could come up with a really nice long list of Apple proprietary hardware. My all time favorite though was when they altered their standard-compliant SCSI CD-Rom drivers so they would no longer work with non-Apple CD-ROMs.

    When it comes to following standards Apple is worse then Microsoft. I've yet to see Microsoft alter their drivers specifically to not work with a competitors hardware.

    And then you go to the software argument... You can still run most of the new software coming out on Win98 SE, with few exceptions, you can hardly say that about Mac OS 9. Try saying the same about MacOS. Mac-enthusiasts like to tout the "longevity" of Mac Hardware but that simply isn't true when you can't even run the latest applications on them, and that's not even touching the gaming space.

  3. Re:WHAT? by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you even read my post?

    I conceded that Apple's OS is much more open than the industry leader, but I am talking about their computers.

    Just try to build a compatible system if you doubt me.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. Re:WHAT? by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Troll

    not being able to build it does not make it closed.

    Sure it does, so does not being able to get specs for the hardware. Ask the guys from Be why they stopped supporting Apple hardware on the BeOS.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano