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JaggedSac on 25 June 2008
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TheRealMafoo said:
ymeaga1n said:

Most people never use their office pcs for anything other than web browsing and ms offices?...are you serious? What about retail sales programs? Point of sales machines? Software which access the company database? Inventory programs? Accounting programs? The biggest problem is not IT training. If you wanted to attribute it to one major thing, it would be because business/enterprise software makers don't make software for MACs.

I have worked for 3 different small~medium size companies. And yes we did use webs apps, but that was a very very small part. Most companies do NOT use web apps...developing web apps is not cheap. Our third party software ran from our windows server database, which is the platform it was designed for. Client software was only made for windows. We ran a domain from a windows servers. We ran our mail system from an exchange server. Mail was checked using outlook.

You're crazy if you believe that Mac's can replace PC's in the work place.

 

 

The trend is web apps. I work for a small compact (120 million a year in sales), and we have moved all our internal apps to the web. I worked for CSC (multi-billion dollar company) for 7 years as a developer, and when I left three years ago, they were in the process of moving everything to the web. They probably have now.

In our company (350 employees), people use MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and a web browser for everything else. We could do that on a Mac (some of us do).

I am a .NET developer, so I need windows. We need IIS, so we need windows server, but all non-developers can use OSX in our company.

In fact, I think it would reduce costs for us by tens of thousands a year.

 

I work for a company that has 400,000 employees worldwide(not nearly all of them are IT people,a lot are drivers, hint,hint, but we do have about 2,000 people in IT) and we use pretty much all Microsoft tools.  I am not reffering just to the Office Suite(although the Office stuff is completely integrated with one another and provides for a very nice way to get information around, ie. Outlook, Office Messenger, etc.) but other stuff as well.  Sharepoint has gotten incredibly huge for Microsoft and is a great tool for getting your whole group collaborated.  Visio is amazing, some have similar features but none compete with it.  Visual Studios is my favorite IDE, although Eclipse comes in a close second.  Microsoft is not just about giving you Word and Excel but also creating custom solutions to fit your infrastructuring needs.  And I read an article about people in business wanting to go Apple but find it is really a headache.  Apple provided little to no support for the businesses and the compatibility issues were a big hurdle.  Apple is not interested in them and in fact have stated so.