Re: Macs in the Enterprise. Be careful what you wish for.

On 2007-03-14 18:08:45 -1000, "gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxxxxx" <gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxxxxx> said:


Timberwolf wrote:

This is not a limitation of Macintosh computers. Ay many places where I have worked, the bandwidth was better than at home.

It may be better but it puts your employer into the business of paying
for your video streaming bandwidth, both up and down stream.

Many enterprise purchase their bandwidth from the same company
nationwide as a matter of policy. So it isn't like you can tell people
in your Florida office to get a Cable TV internet connection, make a
VPN connection, and then use that to share among 30 employees.

Then Timberwoof wrote:

Were unable to or were not permitted to?

What's the difference? If you can't stream video it's not the Mac
experience.

I suppose it would be embarrassing to you if I were to ask for cites and you won't give them anyway so I won't.

I work in the headquarters of a 5000+ employee firm that has offices
nationwide located in the SF Bay Area.


If an application needs more memory, put more memory in the computer! That's not a problem exclusive to Macs either.

My employer allows its employees to use their own monitors. But it
does not allow them to configure hardware on their computers. It
impacts their warranty agreements.

I'd fathom that most companies do not permit employees to open their
computers and add memory or powerful video cards to them.

The point is, that a weak Mac, devoid of the coolest Mac applications
is a machine. You might as well use a PC. (Echk!)

Do not take your corporate experience as the bellweather for all others. Likewise, I will also avoid doing the same, but would like to proffer our environment as an alternative business solution. I work as a C4ISR Network Engineer at the Battle Command Training Center on the base at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. I am a contractor employed with General Dynamics Information Technology and as such, use computers that have been on two completely separate networks. The NIPRnet (Non-secure IP network - read: administrative LAN and internet access to do such things as time*** accounting) is controlled by an Army unit, while all of the simulation and C4ISR computers I use on a daily basis are on their own network, and have no connectivity outside our building.

On our admin computers, all PCs (in fact, the only Mac in the entire building is my MacBook Pro, used to update files at work once I complete doing work on them at home), as long as we have Flash enabled, we are able to watch You tube videos as well as CNN/FOX/MSNBC etc... news stories. Normally Flash is not enabled, as the Army feels, and rightly so, that Flash can be used for other than its intended purpose. Fortunately for us, we are also required to complete periodic training which requires Flash now, so we have become Flash-enabled.

As for chat software, we could save a ton of money by not having to install extremely costly VTC hardware, if only we had something like iChat. Of course, with the Army in control of NIPRnet and SIPRnet access, we have to convince them to release some of their control.

To sum up, your arguments are simply not true in my corporate experience. I wish we had Macs, but the Army is in bed with Dell, especially, so that won't happen anytime soon.

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