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Ah, there's the rub. MS is giving us non-profit status (we used to not
Re: Moving to windows
From: Jim Cobb
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Time: 9:42:21 am
qualify and they changed their rules allowing certain "medical
establishments" into the program thanks to UNOS) and thus we pay about
25% of what all the filthy lucre companies pay.
Therefore it is actually cheaper to "upgrade" to XP than it is to go to
OS X on all our OS 9 machines as Apple does not have a similar program.
On top of that we have a bunch of iMacs which need to be retired, the
eMac would be perfect but...
Plus the FDA frowns on multi-platform medical device manufacturers
(which they have determined we are, being a tissue bank and all)
sooooo, we are now on the hellbound train.
To be frank, Apple has dropped the ball in a spectacular fashion on
their business clients. They have been less than non-supportive, they
are actually hostile to business outside of DTP/art/educational stuff.
They finally have an Apple Business Group with a whopping 13 people in
it and all they do is screw up orders. I tried to purchase an Xserve,
it took 3 months for the order to go through and they lost the server 3
times trying to ship it to us using FedEx ground and basically told us
"hey, it's not my problem, go cry to FedEx." amazing...
In the meantime Insight was getting them by the pallet full. We finally
got ours overnight from Insight but you have to buy them stock, which
means no video card. Do you know how hard it is to find a Radeon 7000
PCI card? I finally had to remove the one in my own kid's G3 to set up
the servers once they got here. amazing.
Apple has not helped me one bit in stating my case for our company run
on OS X rather than XP. It's truly pitiful. I'm pissed at Apple because
I put my reputation on the line and they let me down.
How's CGP security now, give it a try, thanks for pointing it out-
Jim
On Aug 18, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Michael Wise wrote:
> At 09:05 -0400 8/18/04, Jim Cobb wrote:
>
>> Management has decided that we are moving 100% to windows. Currently
>> we are 2/3rds Macs with windows machines under NT domains/WINS and we
>> are using using OS X dns servers with QuickDNS 4.5.1. My questions
>> are:
>>
>> -Should we use 2003 DNS or stick with Unix DNS?
>>
>> -If we user 2003 DNS what is it's relationship with QuickDNS/Bind
>> version 8/9?
>>
>> -While there are some instructions in the manual for changing Bind to
>> dynamic DNS (which we may have to do for the transition), the
>> utilities mentioned in the docs either don't seem to work or don't
>> exist on the servers (we are using 10.2.8).
>>
>> -What are you guys using out there? My Microsoft people predict total
>> and abject failure unless we use the entire server2003 suite,
>> including DHCP etc. end to end unadulterated by Unix or "foreign
>> programs" (which I interpret as non-microsoft).
>>
>> Thanks for any help with this-
>
>
>
> Irrespective of the questionable technical merits or lack thereof for
> what "management" is mandating...I thought non-profits were supposed
> to be fiscally prudent?
>
>
>
> --Mike
>
> P.S. Your CGP directory is wide open, so you may want to close that as
> all 51 of your accounts are easily visible.
>
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