[DM-MUG] Apples in the Enterprise

[Chris Tyrrell]

Unauthorized! LOL

You'd be surprised at the acceptance it's received. My boss, and his 
boss, and his boss have all stopped by to oooh and aahh. They kinda 
like that I use my down-time (waiting on a data warehouse query to 
return or a load to complete) to work on my shareware and keep my C++ 
in the forefront of my mind, even if it is Carbon. Others would use 
this time surfing or ...

Of course, I still can't plug it into the company network, but it's a 
short walk to the Kaleidoscope WiFi zone.

I gotta wonder...is there a Mac equivalent of some of the BI tools we 
use (Brio/BO/Crystal)? Is there an opportunity for an enterprising 
developer here?


Chris

On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:30 PM, kcrouch wrote:

> Correction Chris. Beside your unauthorized iBook, there are 20 Macs 
> riding on the stagecoach (marketing and such). And just a few months 
> ago they were all running a different version of Mac OS. The 
> 'Powers-that-be' are now allowing those few Mac users to standardize 
> on one version of OS. Only 20 Macs in a sea of thousands of PCs.
>
> And quit knocking the $2500/seat software. Some of us need WebSphere. 
> Even though Eclipse is basically the same thing for free.
>
> Kendall
>
> -------Original Message-------
>> From: cdtyrrell@mchsi.com
>> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] Apples in the Enterprise
>> Sent: 13 Apr 2005 18:09:31
>>
>>> I'm curious how many of us are using Macs at work, make our living 
>>> with
>>> Macs, and/or are using Enterprise level Macs (XServe, XServe RAID,
>>> Oracle Server, etc.)
>>
>>  No Macs here "on the stagecoach" (you guess who the company is). 
>> Like other
>>  big corporations, they'd rather buy $400 machines to save money up 
>> front.
>>  It amuses and frustrates me how quickly they'll approve some 
>> enterprise
>>  software @ $2500/seat. They keep their Wintel admin costs low by 
>> locking the
>>  machines down so tight that a typical user can't even change the 
>> date/time.
>>
>>  Hmm. I'm just ranting here. I'll shut up now. ;)
>>
>>
>>  Chris
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Cheers,
Chris


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