The tech world is littered with dead better ideas. We'll see how your theory plays out in the marketplace whether Mac will bury Microsoft.
Buy the way, Steve Jobs and crew, as well as Bill Gates and crew both "stole" the original OS from Xerox Parc. If you're going to be a zealot, at least get your "facts" right.
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If Steve Jobs said it, it must be true. Of course anything MS says must be a lie. I'm not an MS fan. I'm the CIO of a mid-size company with more than 1,000 desktops. I have three Macs in my marketing group. I also have a number of IBM I Series servers (AS400). They never go down.
Find me a 100% compatible open source replacement for Office and IE and I'll move everyone over in a heartbeat. Don't give me the current crap of close enough. I've got sophisticated users that have extensive macros and VBA code that must convert seamlessly. I've got a major third-party software implementation project that uses IE's engine and ActiveX controls on the client. I've been through the bin of every alternative we could find. NOTHING WAS 100% compatible.
I also spent several years with a worldwide credit card company. The systems that couldn't be down --- ran on IBM mainframes. Again the only Macs were in the advertising and marketing groups.
I'm off the soapbox. You can't argue with zealots.
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Too damn bad Apple never ran that Jan 1986 ad spot again. It says everything about CIO's and what political pressure they are under. BTW you think Jobs might know his own sales figures and be able to look up his competitors in a market research publication?
To be 100% compatible it would have to violate copyright and patent law and you know that. Then again you are the one who backed yourself into that corner and put down the wet radioactive paint.
But you are looking, that means you know how bad Doze and MicroCrap software is.
Several years ago no doubt, before Mac OS X and X Serves no doubt. Since it is now like 10X less expensive to pitch the mainframe and install X Serves in place of it ... and maybe that picture of it behind Jobs at the Keynote was a fabrication ...
I'll never knock IBM's mainframe division. Their total slavish devotion to the NIH syndrome kept world order. You know like their complete love of EBCDIC.
Just so you know my first computer to play with was an IBM1130. Nice machine. It had the ram expansion so there was 8K of core. It also had a 14" disk pac. Those were fun days.
Can't argue with conspiracy theory agenda types either.
P.S. To back yourself out of that corner, issue a directive forbidding any mission critical code that won't run on more than one program. Say it is to be sure that there are no errors in the code that can be shown by testing on two different platforms and it is part of the disaster plan. You are the CIO, you can get away with it.
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