Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> > How many stock >> > exchanges are run on Mac OS??? How many enterprise >> > databases run on Mac OS??? How many enterprise >> > anything runs on Mac OS??? I am fairly certain that I have designed and built more stock exchange computer systems than all of the rest of you combined (I've designed and built two; I can't tell you which ones, because secrecy was part of the contract, but you've probably used them). And I've engineered more than a billion dollars worth of enterprise computing facilities, including what were, at the time they were installed, the two largest privately-owned computer centers in the world. I claim expertise in this area. I'm typing this message on a Macintosh G4. Engineering is all about the right tool for the right job. I would never put a client operating system in a server room, or vice versa. I have 9 servers here at my house, and one of them does indeed run MacOS, because of NetObjects, which doesn't work anywhere else. The other 8 run FreeBSD, a form of Unix. I gave up my PCs for Macs as soon as my day job allowed. I did this not because Macs were necessarily "bettere", but because I wanted to live my daily life without any contact with Microsoft products, and I found Linux too amateurish. I have a Linux system aboutg 5 feet behind me, but it's turned off. What I discovered is that Mac OS X is the sweetest, most reliable, cleanest, nicest client operating system imaginable. I didn' expect that. I expected it to be every bit as buggy as Windows but not have the stench of Microsoft. What I found instead was something vastly more reliable, and that integrates more nicely into my computing and network environment. Photoshop 6 runs a whole heck of a lot faster on my Mac than it ever did on my PC. with some functions, such as "save for web", it's a matter of 5 seconds instead of 3 minutes; with most others, it's just 2 or 3 times as fast. I managed to get all of my work done on Windows systems. I now get all of my work done on Mac systems. They are both capable of doing the job. I just like the Macs better. (BTW: Linux wasn't first at anything. FreeBSD and NetBSD were both zero-cost and working on PC's before Linux existed. Minix was a toy. What differentiates Linux is that it has people who really know how to do PR and marketing. Linux is better for desktop use; FreeBSD is better for back-end server use.) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html