What follows is an anonymous email we received early this morning posted in its entirety:
Dear MacDailyNews,
What a day! And night. Yesterday at work, the whole place was down due to the Blaster worm. Computers freaking out more than usual, except mine. Nobody could get online to access the web or get email and the IT staff, a third of whom were on vacation, were losing their minds.
This is the same IT staff that fought me tooth and nail when I requisitioned my Apple Macintosh computer (PowerBook G4 15-inch). They said at the time that they couldn’t support multiple platforms, that I wouldn’t be able to access the network – all of the usual falsehoods many others experience every day. What I went through to finally gain approval for the Mac purchase I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy! But, in the end, I got my Mac.
Well, yesterday, my Mac was the only functioning computer at work. My Mac handled several important emails which resulted in sales (revenue) for the company – this would’ve been impossible to achieve had we been stuck in a homogenous Windows situation as IT wanted. Basically, without the Apple Mac, no business would’ve been conducted yesterday.
The Mac was used for the first time by several top managers to communicate with their business contacts throughout the day and into the evening. Many of these people came away with a very positive impression of the Mac and seemed bowled over by Mac OS X. The fact that the Mac just worked and all of the Windows PCs didn’t was not lost on these upper management people. In fact, several have scheduled meetings with IT to figure out how to prevent such a mess in the future and one thing they seem to want is to “mix in some Macs around here for safety,” as one manager put it.
So, the Mac came through with flying colors, helped make a great deal of revenue and may have gained a foothold in my company! Perhaps even the IT guys will come around now. Thought you would like to know.
The problem is not the Mac vs PC war. The problem is that Mac users are SICK of stupid PC users bragging about the marvels of their PC and still knowing nothing about Apple computers and OS X.
Especially is annoying when they play smartass boy and come out with their condescending “Mac owners, you know I really appreciate your position, but isn’t this whole Mac vs. PC thing getting old?” in situations such as this. The war is conducted by unprofessional IT managers all over the world, not by Mac users.
How professional are IT managers going against the use of Macs because of pretended network incompatibilities? or because of additional superior costs: ludicrous. Ever have read a Gartner report on the subject?
Fact is: there are mission critical systems out there, hospitals, airports, banks, you name it and IDIOTS out there are still using Windows OSes in such environments. Even more idiots when the they dismiss the issue of alternatives with “Apple are toys” or “They can’t run this” or assuming Linux is a character from “Peanuts”.
Let me tell you, one word: IDIOTS. So stop the war indeed and ditch those Windows machines.
Cheap sells and cheap stuff is what you get. When one day of inactivity costs you millions go tell me again the PC were cheap!
steve: sorry you work – your words – in a dumb company. And your CEO is an IDIOT.
Don’t we all feel safer now that the dept of Homeland Security will put all our personal information on secure Windows machines?
I have seen posts and articles about how Apple users love the Macs.
The only positive thing I have seen about Wintel machines is how fast they are.
I have never seen anyone say they LOVE their Wintel boxes.
There are Mac Fanatics and sour grape windows users…
Here is how you protect a Windows machine from viruses.
Step 1) Disconnect it from the internet.
Step 2) Turn it off.
“Cheap sells. And as long as a PC costs half of what a mac does, people will put up with anything… including virii that turn their harddrives to mush etc. etc.”
The sad reality is…If these bozos would add in the cost of ownership of their so called CHEAPER PC, including downtime and lost productivity caused by things like virus infections, reinstalling the OS and this worm, they would perhaps realize that the whole notion is a LIE!
Apple computers cost less to own over 3 years. The difference in cost is less than 5% in most cases which is quickly erased in the first year of trouble free performance both in software and hardware reliability.
Must truly suck to be so fricking stupid!
To turn a Mac user into a fanatic there is one simple recipe: one stupid PC user comment a day.
At least the Navy won’t be affected: they are now on Apple XServe running Linux.
It starts at an early age. My 15 yr old niece’s b.f.d.j (boyfriend du jour) is a 16 yr old about to start college (very bright kid) and currently works with PCs and wants to be a programmer. As I drove him home last week, we chatted about Macs. He firmly believes that..
1. Macs will eventually use Intel chips because Steve jobs was seen talking to someone from Intel. (Of course I happen to mention the G5 being the fastest computer and the whole 16-to-32 bit code conversion problem with Intel, so going with Intel would be a huge step backwards).
2. Apple is slowly dying. (And I calmly countered with all of Apple’s advancements, millions of Macs sold each year, and 25% of them are switchers.)
If a cult exists, it is with Microsoft and the flood of misinformation disseminated as fact. Yes, one day very soon, I’ll invite the boyfriend over for “An Afternoon with a Mac”. Not as an “I told you so”, but more of a gentle introduction to alternatives outside the grasp of Microsoft control. Being a programmer, I think he’ll appreciate the scripting differences:
http://www.xvsxp.com/scriptability/ ..a MUST SEE website!
Can someone tell me where I could get figures on how much money a company saves on average by using Windows vs Linux vs Mac? I am just curious what the best figures are on operating costs, etc. My company is soon going to be setting up servers and personal workstations soon and I need some info on what to recommend. Thanks!
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Following Gartner report, from an independent analysis at the University of Liege, Belgium, they discovered that if they substitute WIntel platforms with Macs (currently 4000 Wintel and 1000 Macs) with the amount saved at the minimum calculation, one could buy 58 eMacs every year at the current education pricing. At the more realistic estimate, one could buy 128 eMacs each year.
If one considers moving away from all Microsoft systems and applications (approx. 200 euros/year), the study shows, the migration gives 800,000 euros to the University. In other words, one can save on software alone an equivalent of 551 eMacs per year.
try this:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=4795
Macs have lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Windows:
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18338.html
The US Navy bought Apple’s XServe with Linux installed: some of the reasons: they were way cheaper for same performance and presented little security flaws vs whatever Windows/Intel solution.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/1258203
SteveJack’s idea looks better and better every day:
http://www.macdailynews.com/opinion_comments.php?id=P924_0_2_0_C
Our company computers (PC’s) were “infected” by the msblaster worm on Tuesday (8/12). In order to get them “fixed” I was able to use my iMac (home machine) to download the patch for the systems and repair them.
To Josh’s question of how to get the company to look at Mac, sometimes it take the camels nose under the tent. I let our IT guy borrow my Power Book for two weeks and demonstrate that he could use it successfully on the company network.
He had already switched all of our servers from windooze to IBM’s with Linux and now we’ve added two X serves. Still no universal migration but there are now two MDD’s as well. Granted 2 out of 167 peecees is not much, but they have already proven themselves just on downtime and maintenance. The plus is that even the in house wintel geek likes the X serves.
Our company will never abandon windooze as many of the proprietary OEM porgrams we use only run under windooze, however, I know we will see a larger percentage of Apple’s in the next few years. The productivity is winning the argument all by itself.
Steve . . . are you listening Steve? Put your ad agency to work immediately and put out an ad which documents what this virus did and how many computers were infected. Then the simple killer punch line – Not one of them was a Macintosh.
Apples aren’t totally immune, but a PC is just like a slut at a Mardi Gras parade – it attracts flies.
Fire the bozos in that IT department for not having an adequate firewall rules and for not patching the systems. Reminds me, I had better go check today’s CERT bulletins and the patch of the day from M$.
If the company IT staff had anyone with intellegence this would not have happened.
But also, if the IT staff had any brains, they would not fight tooth and nail to support multiple systems. Ignorance only perpetuate ignorance.
I have a staff that can handle Mac, PC, Linux and if we had to we get someone trained on a platform.
Unfortunate problem with most IT or MIS department is that they only hire inexperienced people as low level techs. And most of them were brought up on Windows. I have hired a Mac tech, but experienced ones are hard to find. So if you are a Mac Head, my suggestion to you is this: Learn Windows, you can make more changes from within rather than shouting at them from outside. If you can support both platform, you are already ahead of the game.
Its same as learning a new language, it never hurts only helps.
http://www.winface.com/linux.html
In some configurations/business model the report showes up to 60% cheaper costs of operation wrt Windows
i swear, apple should make a commercial: [scene, neighborhood in chaos, people panicking in the street, lights failing].. switch to tv news on a television showing broadcaster announcing windows virus killing all computers, disasters”.. tv shuts off, zoom out, happy guy puts down the remote control, puts on his iPod headphones and dances around room, roommate sits in front of his G5, surfing web and making videos. keep zooming out, apple spokesperson saying something like “Aren’t you glad you’re using a Mac?” Fade to black. apple logo, URL
AMEN, GLENN !!!!!!