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Re: OT The platform wars are over... [message #99724 is a reply to message #99719]

Mon, 28 July 2008 14:23

dc[3]
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"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote:

>And had our concerns actually come to pass, i.e. Apple going out of business
>which was a very real possibility back then, guess who the faculty would
>have come whining to to bail them out? We were giving prudent advice that
>SOME people ignored and the rest got a little lucky.

Hah! One man's luck is another man's foresight I guess.

We knew it was BS. We were right. Call it luck if you like.

>As far as I can tell the implication is that I'm charged with giving world
>class support to my users, which I do. In return they trust that I will
make
>good decisions for this organization about what can and can't be supported,
>within reason. That means that on the OS level I advise people not to have
>WORK machines that are Vista or OS X. Right now I have to be reasonably
conversant
>in Solaris 8/9/10, two flavors of linux (SuSE and Red Hat), and CISCO OS.
>I also have to be fluent in Debian, Server 2k3, and Server 2000 and have
>projects on hand that are forcing me to learn SQL Server 2005 (in addition
>to the Oracle 9i db stuff we already have) plus at least basic C# and ASP.NET.
>Since there only 24 hours in the day and I still like to sleep, eat, make
>music, and get laid, I think I'd be doing a disservice to my users if I
suddenly
>decided to learn a new desktop platform.

Wow. But still, if a bunch of faculty want to use macs,
and they do, you either provide support or a nice
vendor will.

>Again, what are these implications you speak of?

Well in the case of the loudmouth IT guy and the PC
nazi dept head, it was unemployment.

DC

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		OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Sun, 27 July 2008 23:18
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:30
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 08:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:06
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 13:28
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:29
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Ed on Thu, 31 July 2008 10:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Thu, 31 July 2008 12:49
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Thu, 31 July 2008 16:16
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Fri, 01 August 2008 04:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Fri, 01 August 2008 05:01
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Kim W on Fri, 01 August 2008 07:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Fri, 01 August 2008 09:19
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Fri, 01 August 2008 14:17
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Fri, 01 August 2008 17:53
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 04:07
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Sat, 02 August 2008 05:34
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Sat, 02 August 2008 19:48
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Fri, 01 August 2008 12:52
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 04 August 2008 00:04
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 04 August 2008 09:02
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:23
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: TCB on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:43
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:59
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 19:11
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 09:19
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Mon, 28 July 2008 09:23
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:39
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 14:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Mon, 28 July 2008 15:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:53
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:25
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 16:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Tue, 29 July 2008 06:49
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Bill L on Mon, 28 July 2008 20:56
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Mon, 28 July 2008 21:47
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Sarah on Tue, 29 July 2008 11:55
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Tue, 29 July 2008 13:56
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Jamie K on Tue, 29 July 2008 14:47
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: kerryg on Tue, 29 July 2008 17:21
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: dc[3] on Tue, 29 July 2008 15:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 00:52
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:45
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 04:58
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: excelav on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:11
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:36
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: Kim W on Wed, 30 July 2008 07:46
		Re: OT The platform wars are over... By: John [1] on Wed, 30 July 2008 08:39

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