Re: MAC or PC?

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:57:54 -0600, Dave Balderstone
<dave***@balderstone.ca> wrote:

>In article <vkYyf.12824$xk1.201511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bell

>We also have an IT staff of three in a company with 85 employees. I
>suspect that would have to double if we were a Windows shop. Who's
>arguing for the switch to Windows? Is the IT department trying to save
>their jobs?


I work in a firm where virtually every employee
has at least one WinXP workstation. We live and
die by our PCs and our network. There are about
130 employees and exactly two full-time "IT"
employees responsible for the PCs and the network.
The PCs themselves are 100% Dell (not my choice,
but a corporate one.) There are a handful of
Macs used for driver verificaton and compatibility
testing.

It is not a pre-press operation, it is a very
high-tech engineering firm, doing embedded
firmware design, Verilog, IC layout and chip
verification.

Our products (ie., our chips) incorporate
ethernat MACs, so occasionally we have
insane situations on the network where the
same MAC address appears more than once.
Makes for some amusing situations.


rafe b
www.terrapinphoto.com
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