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Re: IBM considering switch to Macs

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Post by dangoldin »

This quote probably summarizes why a lot of people are switching:

Said another: "I have been a true PC stalwart for 2+ decades, but after trying Vista, I’m ready for a change."

Vista drove me to try Linux and I doubt I'm going back any time soon.

Re: IBM considering switch to Macs

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Post by mpc »

redorb wrote: post #4

Doesn't mean a lot; I'm sure IBM has considered millions of options in the last week. They have people who think about people thinking about ideas.

They also are always looking to the future and don't mess around.

If MS releases another Vista (or worse) in a couple of years, do you think they'll stick with windows?

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Post by thingsilearned »

I'm very hopeful but somewhat skeptical. They also said they'd quit windows several years ago but haven't gotten close.

I just quit IBM in January. I brought my own mac in and used that exclusively. My boss did as well. There was a small but strong community of mac users. It was not common to use a mac, but no one minded.

It would be really awesome if you could choose. Using a Mac at IBM, even though it was completely unsupported, was easier than windows.

There are a lot of compatibility and VNC tools because everyone I worked with had to do most of their work on Unix. With X11 everything just worked very smoothly on mac.

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Post by deepsea »

For pretty much everywhere the MS --> Mac move is considered, isn't the big sticking point Exchange Server?

AFAICT, everything else has a good replacement. It's the email server that has everyone locked-in, right? I'm not a Mac user though, ... maybe OS X can talk to exchange?

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Post by wmf »

deepsea wrote: post #7

For pretty much everywhere the MS --> Mac move is considered, isn't the big sticking point Exchange Server? AFAICT, everything else has a good replacement. It's the email server that has everyone locked-in, right? I'm not a Mac user though, ... maybe OS X can talk to exchange?

IBM doesn't use Exchange since IBM makes Lotus Notes, which works fine on OS X.

Re: IBM considering switch to Macs

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Post by tx »

thingsilearned wrote: post #6

I'm very hopeful but somewhat skeptical. They also said they'd quit windows several years ago but haven't gotten close. I just quit IBM in January. I brought my own mac in and used that exclusively. My boss did as well. There was a small but strong community of mac users. It was not common to use a mac, but no one minded. It would be really awesome if you could choose. Using a Mac at IBM, even though it was completel…

I work at a engineering company even bigger than IBM, and what we have here is crazy:

There is a corporate Windows network and all computers come pre-damaged with a special "Corporate Image" that we are all obligated to run: it's Windows XP with tons of stuff specific to the company: it even keeps a special wallpaper along with the screensaver that you cannot change. And, of course, there are plethora of daemons running: spying on what you do, anti-viruses, etc. And this image won't run under VM.

Well... these beautiful and powerful workstations that we get from the company aren't really used by engineers: they sit in the dark corners of our offices only to be used to read "corporate email" once a day. Everyone is either on MBP+OSX or ThinkPad+Ubuntu like me, connected to our own "engineering network" we built for ourselves with our own internet gateway, using gmail and IM to communicate.

From what I hear, AMD in Austin runs exactly the same way. This is probably why their CPUs suck lately.

This truly is pathetic. The price you pay for being acquired.

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