Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic
From: "Doug Ford" <dford@san.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:39:29 -0800

I used to do field service work in L.A. Visited Dreamworks a couple of
times, where they were using SGI boxes, rows and rows of racks filled with
SGI servers, to render their digital images/films at the time.

Doug

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of David C.
Mason
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:03 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic


S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net> writes:

> In-house work has tended to be done by PC. My own, and some might say
> limited, experience has been that designers and photographers, for the
> most part, tend to use MAC. The larger firms sub-contratct to the
> smaller firms anyway, where the better work is done, again on MAC.
> As far as paying 2-3 times for a specific tonal range in the bells and
> whistles, well this a Leica list after all.


That is a blanket statement. It depends on what kind of in-house work
is being done. Many large companies are using PCs now because their IS
departments can support it more easily with their existing MS networks.

Then again if you look at 'the Big Boys'(TM) like Dreamworks, ILM,
etc. they are using Linux on their servers *and* workstations. This
may not apply to you as they have their own applications for their
work, but it does signify the big shift they all made which was driven
by cost and performance.


Cheers,

Dave
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