PC's or Macs? Gates or Jobs? Whattaya think?

[Onlypastrana199]

It doesn't matter what it is..they all break..they all have to be fixed....


...sorry I'm bitter about my job atm  :lol:  Seems like everyone with a PC has a horrible virus and ITS protocol here requires a clean install of the OS with this particular virus before they'll unblock the computer and allow internet access again, all the macs are having hardware issues, and our servers don't want to stay running

[Phaedrus]

All of our PC workstations here run great.  

Our MACS are pieces of crap, are out of date, and don't function very well at all   Fortunately they are just in the break room for staff to play on and go online with. We don't rely on them for anything anymore.

Our Novell and Windows servers rarely have to do much with except for routine maintenance and updates.

Now when it comes to USERS, that is where most of our problems are   :x

[Badger]

Yea Dionsyus is right on the $$$ ... all the real info (money and medical records types not message boards and personal use crap) is on Unix derivatives ... I'd say it out numbers windoze 90% to 10. Also all firewalls (more like 99% in this case ) are Unix based. I know cos that's why I have a job ...  :lol:  ... a sucky, 80 hours a week, a piddly, nit picky, paper peddling job ...  :lol:
Cool.
Srinath.

Sorry...I just can't let this go unchallenged...

I'd argue that much of the so-called "real info" you speak of is still on the mainframe...especially when you talk about financial services.  Of course, there are some exceptions...like Nasdaq (SQL Server).  As for other kinds of "real info", I'd invite you to find some actual market share data.  For non-mainframe databases, Windows has more than 50% of the market (with almost 50% of that being SQL Server, with the rest split between Oracle/IBM) [source: Gartner].  For enterprise apps, you might look at SAP on Windows (>60% market share) and SQL Server (>45%).  SQL Server has >25% of the OLAP market (more than Oracle and DB2 combined).  I'm not trying to say that UNIX doesn't have significant market share, but I do think you're overstating by a significant amount.

I'll save the debate over which platform is better/faster/cheaper for a different time.   :dunno:

[JetSwing]

Goodbye "blue screen of death"
Goodbye crappy PC's  :nana:

what were you running, windows 95?  

have fun with your "cute" macs  :nana:

[JetSwing]

Now when it comes to USERS, that is where most of our problems are   :x

yup, 90% of problems with computers are caused by something called User Error.

[Phaedrus]

*NIX is the king of the Internet  

[Badger]

*NIX is the king of the Internet  

So maybe Srinath is right...all the "real info" really is on UNIX:  the PORN!  :lol:

[dionysus]

Now when it comes to USERS, that is where most of our problems are   :x

yup, 90% of problems with computers are caused by something called User Error.

Which is the reason Macs protect themselves from their users. Or rather, why they're so easy to use. But, I personally think everyone should be running Debian on an iBook. If only broadcom would release the specs for that damned airport card.  :guns:

[natedawg120]

Now when it comes to USERS, that is where most of our problems are   :x

yup, 90% of problems with computers are caused by something called User Error.

Yup PBKAC -- Problem Between Keyboard And Chair.  And i know they make windows emulators for MACs, I'm actually talking about installing a windows OS onto MAC hardware, cause after MAC switches to their new intel chip, the hardware in a MAC is going to be PC hardware.  MAC is getting away from proprietary hardware.