Commentary:
Quite simply, Windows guarantees more work for the M.I.S. departments — because
it computers require far more technical support to do the same work. And when
the M.I.S. departments make computer recommendations to management, they tend
to look out for their own job security over the best interests of the business.
The same reason that many retail stores also push Wintel machines — it
guarantees more work for their highly profitable service departments.
In
addition to Mac OS X (which combines the ease of use and professional content
creation capabilities of the Macintosh with the power, reliability, and speed
of the NeXT version of UNIX), BeOS, NetWare, and OS/2 Warp Server, any of the
many free and commercial versions of UNIX offer a better high end operating
system than Windows NT. See John Kirch’s article “Microsoft Windows NT Server
4.0 versus UNIX” at http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/.
Serious
commercial UNIXs include: AIX, Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Macintosh OS X, Mac
OS X Server, Rhapsody, and Solaris.
Leading
free UNIXs include: FreeBSD, GNU Hurd, LINUX, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
And
in the server arena, the leader (in number of installations) is still NetWare.
Study
after study has shown that Macintoshes are less expensive to support and
maintain than Wintel machines. Wintel computers typically cost four to 10 times
as much in support costs. Even Intel’s own internal study showed that it was
costing them four times as much to support Windows machines as it did to
support their Macintoshes (yes, Intel used Macintoshes for mission critical
work — and since that study they have been expanding their use of Macintoshes).
Independent
studies over the years continually show that worker productivity is
substantially higher on Macintoshes than on Wintel computers. And the
difference is greatest in the creative fields (pre-press, illustration, digital
photography, 2-D and 3-D animation, 3-D modelling and rendering, film special
effects, broadcast video editting, CD-ROM production, multi-media, music
composition and performance, sound editting, and web site production), where
the Macintosh is the most prevalent computer (even more than the high end graphics
work stations — and Macintosh OS X (formerly Rhapsody) brings the Macintosh to
the high end graphics work stations). Macintosh OS X is numerically the most
used form of See also: http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/, John Kirch’s article
“Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX”
Ethics:
Bill Gates is a longtime member of the Augusta National Golf Club, the official
site of the Masters Golf Tournament. The Augusta National Golf Club refuses to
allow any women join their club and for decades refused to allow Blacks,
Hispanics, and other minorities to join, only relenting in 1990 to allow a few
token Black members when facing criminal charges for Civil Rights violations.
The only reason that Microsoft hires women and minorities is because of tough
federal Civil Rights laws. If you are a woman, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or a
member of any other minority group, remember that Bill Gates and Microsoft hate
you and only take your money becuase they are forced to by law.