![]() Easy (network) administration and setup versus learning curve for the user (although pretty low). Easier to integrate in a unix/linux network, versus lack of some vertical-market applications. More expensive hardware is a disadvantage. It just shows that you are some mac-hating zealot. Just saying “no”, without examining the needs is absolutely stupid. There are some disadvantages, and some advantages. Keap linux on the servers, keap what keaps employees happy on their desks. ![]() And then I doubt there will be much support. For linux you’re probably going to be waiting for someone to write it. If you can’t just get up and walk around to them to do what needs to be done you’re just lazy.Īlso on mac and windows you can be sure any new app that might come out will be avalible, not so true for the mac side but not to bad. And administration for a dozen computers is not much of an issue. Open source code and super customization don’t matter. They want to get stuff done easily and fast. And really most all the reason people say open source os’s such as linux are so great just don’t matter to businesses. The loss in productivity would also be a killer (just a few hours of relearning time just paid for a copy of XP pro, and it’s going to take an employee a long time to learn things), unless your doing something very unix centric with employees that are good with it linux it is going to suck for them. The cost of the OS relitive to the computer and the users salary and so forth is so small it doesn’t matter much on that front. Well that wasn’t a option for the topic now was it.Īnd even if it was it would not be an option. But if you are an existing business and have tons of software going and stuff custom written for windows and all the employees are well into their grove with what they have, then there is no reason to switch, a switch would be a bad thing then. With legacy stuff out of the way you would only be talking a grand maybe more to have a mac over a windows box, and for a few computers thats not a big deal. I do think though that with OSX apple is off on a fresh start and if you have no reason to chose one OS over the other it makes for a nice begining. I don’t buy that macs save any money in the long run to offset cost. A mac on a desk is not going to make you look smarter to the costomer, maybe even dumber by the impression apple gives of it’s users by the switch commercials (are the gone, haven’t seen them in a while, good thing). If people feel like a company is just good at wasting money instead of lowering prices they can leave with a negitive feeling towards a place. If it’s something where people generaly feel like they are paying to much for something, seeing macs there might make them not approve of things as much and maybe take their business else where. Don’t get into mass licenses for them.Īnother issue is what your business does and how much of the computer use the customer sees. Then I might think more towards having a fleet of identical computer put together and buy copies of XP pro for them. But If your talking more then a few dozen of them the cost is going to get high fast. The employee might just be stubborn about the switch, but it will for sure effect their work.įor a small business, if I was starting fresh, and there was no legacy apps to deal with and no missing apps I would go for Macs. So having them find a mac on their desk will probably cause a good deal of greif for many of them. Far more likely then not your employees will be windows users. I’m posting in the forums because it’s a holiday today and as a consequence I know they are unlikely to respond until Wednesday or Thursday and I want to continue working on a much more important document than the test document referenced above.I think the main question to be asked is what will your employees work best with. Why am I getting this error message every time I reopen a document on my iPad? I am running the latest OS on both devices and the latest available version of OmniGraffle on both devices. Parts of this document may not be displayed correctly, and if you save fro this version of OmniGraffle you may lose those features of this document that only work in newer versions. This document was created with a newer version of OmniGraffle than the one you are using. “Some features of this document are unavailable on this device. This happens on all documents, even a simple test document created from scratch just now (one box, red) on the iPad, synced to MacBook Pro using OmniPresence, and now I want to reopen the document on my iPad, and I get this message: MacBook Pro retina 2015 running MacOS 10.12.5, OmniGraffle 7.3.1 downloaded and activated as the Trial Version (although in the About panel it says “OmniGraffle Pro Upgrade is installed.
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