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From: kennethr@idt.unit.no (Kenneth Roar Iversen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Experiences with Macs.
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.154338.6661@idt.unit.no>
Date: 18 Jan 90 15:43:38 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Trondheim, Norway
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I hope this is the right place for a request like this, if not you
must excuse me.

I am in the middle of a discussion on whether or not to buy any more
Macs. Today we have about 120 IBM-compatibles, 60 SUNs and 12 Macs,
all in a Ethernet environment. The "IBM"s use PC-NFS, the Macs TOPS to
the SUNs that are servers. Today our maintenance staff only know the
"IBM"s, mainly because the Mac-users have done everything themselves.

Now, my application for a new Mac has been turned down (so far), and
so for all the applications for Macs. The argument against buying Macs
seem to be a claimed to be increase in maintenace costs.

I would like to get argument both for and against buying Macs in our
situation, and some comments on the "anti-Mac" argument.

I have heard some rumours that Stanford University (CA, USA) has
"thrown" out (som of) the IBM-compatibles at the expence of Macs.
If this is true, can anyone tell me why?

MaKenneth R. Iversen
University of Trondheim
Division of computer systems and telematics (!?!?)
N-7034 TRONDHEIM
NORWAY

Internet: kennethr@idt.unit.no