Re: Samsung release laptops with solid state drives...

George Graves wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:26:10 -0800, Steve de Mena wrote
(in article <47363e12$0$9585$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

George Graves wrote:

And while it's true that Microsoft has sold the corporate world a bill of goods and is mostly ubiquitous in the enterprise, some are beginning to see that there is a better way. One which doesn't bring with it the security concerns and the maintenance intensity of Windows.
Seems like "Versiontracker Pro" finds new updates for applications on my Macs on a daily basis. I am constantly installing updates (many with install packages, and not simply the "drag and drop" install method touted as the standard method in OS X). Plus Apples own security and bug fixes. So I don't find a disparity there with Microsoft's once-a-month patch schedule (which is completed automated and not resource intensive in any large corporation).
You're exaggerating, of course. The updates aren't anywhere near as frequent
as you paint them. And that's not what I'm talking about, anyway. In the office where I work, there are about 40 PCs. Something is "broken" on more than one of them EVERY day. There are two IT guys and they spend most of their days putting-out "fires" consisting of getting broken PCs up and running again.
That says something about the IT guys, doesn't it?


Since it's the norm at every PC-centric site that I've ever worked at, and since its NOT the IT guys that are breaking the computers, I'd say that it says more about Windows Than anything else.


We had a standard desktop image running globally on 100,000+ systems.

With 5000 IT techniciains? One for every 20 seats seems to be about par.

The ratio was more like 1 for 200. Directly in our headquarters they had 3-5 guys for hands-on support and project work, we had 1,700 people in the building. Maybe a few in individual department doing IT hands on work part time. Hardware break/fix was done by a vendor, HP. (The desktops & laptops were actually Dell)

My team of 9 supported 2,000 Windows servers remotely throughout North and South America. Hardware break/fix was done by the vendor.

Steve
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