Flipping from M$Office to Google apps is one thing, but flipping from XP to Linux is an entirely different matter regarding TCO. What nobody seems to be discussing here is centralized management and security when it comes to access and control over the desktop. It's one thing to re-train your busy bee workers, but you would need an entirely new IT staff to work with the centralized management tools for a fleet of Linux desktops. If you want a mature set of tools then you are going with Novell or RedHat anyway, which doesn't seem that politically or monetarily different than Microsoft and the cost of your IT workers with expertise on enterprise managed Linux systems is 15-20% higher than getting a cast of MCSE's to keep everything in top shape for you.
I sent this article to a freind who is a mac fan, and I here is the corresponding e-mail:
From Fan:
I think that this guy is just being contrary, like you, I use both OS all day long...and know which one I like.
anyway, wouldn't you call winsupersite writer guy fanboi (despite his disclaimer)?
My responce:
No, I wouldn't call the windozesupersiteguy a windows fanboi. Unlike apple, M$ doesn't really have adult fanbois, it's more like a useful tool from some non-descript company you really don't feel any need to get excited about until some apple fanboi or Linux RTFM jackass starts attacking you. As for using both OSes all day at work, he definitely wasn't talking about which OS is better, or who has superior engineers. He was talking about marketing. Apple isn't humble and are notorious swing masters..seriously, Steve and his marketing team should be in politics or news media. I don't see it as being contrary as a primary, although the spice is there, I see it as being a truth seeker. This guy just wants apple not to insult our intelligence...which they do as a habit. Anything they do is major and innovative, to hear them tell it, but geeks with some history know better...just in the way I know better when I hear marketing claims from pet companies. I know the reality and history behind their claims(note-I worked in the pet industry for many years). WWDC seems like preaching to the converted. I totally get the purpose of this method, I would do the same. If I owned a company I would swing everything I did to make me look like the company that my expanding demographic wants to buy from. I don't think apple should have done anything differently, it's simply that articles like the one this guy wrote are valid and his argument is sound. Regardless of his writing style or his choice of language that paints apple in a more negative light than their choices may have deserved, his point is sound: Apples marketing machine swings their technology in such a way that it insults the intelligence of the geek community.
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Flipping from M$Office to Google apps is one thing, but flipping from XP to Linux is an entirely different matter regarding TCO. What nobody seems to be discussing here is centralized management and security when it comes to access and control over the desktop. It's one thing to re-train your busy bee workers, but you would need an entirely new IT staff to work with the centralized management tools for a fleet of Linux desktops. If you want a mature set of tools then you are going with Novell or RedHat anyway, which doesn't seem that politically or monetarily different than Microsoft and the cost of your IT workers with expertise on enterprise managed Linux systems is 15-20% higher than getting a cast of MCSE's to keep everything in top shape for you.
I sent this article to a freind who is a mac fan, and I here is the corresponding e-mail: From Fan: I think that this guy is just being contrary, like you, I use both OS all day long...and know which one I like. anyway, wouldn't you call winsupersite writer guy fanboi (despite his disclaimer)? My responce: No, I wouldn't call the windozesupersiteguy a windows fanboi. Unlike apple, M$ doesn't really have adult fanbois, it's more like a useful tool from some non-descript company you really don't feel any need to get excited about until some apple fanboi or Linux RTFM jackass starts attacking you. As for using both OSes all day at work, he definitely wasn't talking about which OS is better, or who has superior engineers. He was talking about marketing. Apple isn't humble and are notorious swing masters..seriously, Steve and his marketing team should be in politics or news media. I don't see it as being contrary as a primary, although the spice is there, I see it as being a truth seeker. This guy just wants apple not to insult our intelligence...which they do as a habit. Anything they do is major and innovative, to hear them tell it, but geeks with some history know better...just in the way I know better when I hear marketing claims from pet companies. I know the reality and history behind their claims(note-I worked in the pet industry for many years). WWDC seems like preaching to the converted. I totally get the purpose of this method, I would do the same. If I owned a company I would swing everything I did to make me look like the company that my expanding demographic wants to buy from. I don't think apple should have done anything differently, it's simply that articles like the one this guy wrote are valid and his argument is sound. Regardless of his writing style or his choice of language that paints apple in a more negative light than their choices may have deserved, his point is sound: Apples marketing machine swings their technology in such a way that it insults the intelligence of the geek community.