Re: Help! PC monopoly taking place
Re: Help! PC monopoly taking place
- Subject: Re: Help! PC monopoly taking place
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:49:41 -0500
Hi Del: I am sympathetic, having gone through a very similar situation
at my employer. However, I don't think it is "illegal" for any
institution to decide it wants to adopt a single-platform strategy. I
wonder if it might be "illegal" for an outside party to offer financial
incentives to an organization aimed at persuading them to go in this
direction, but I think the organization is perfectly free to go
whatever way it wants.
I always tell people who espouse this PC-only thing that they didn't
get the answer wrong, but rather they asked the wrong question. That
is, if their argument is that going PC is the cheapest solution, then
this is probably true but they shouldn't have been looking for the
short term cheapest solution but rather the best long term financial
payback. That sort of thing.
Good luck!!
Jim Foster
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:28 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Bottom line is the $. Intel, MicroSoft, Dell & Sun have offered
schools
attractive grants to embed a straight-PC protocol. ...
the wording in this current Grant states that there can be no Macs for
students, staff or faculty allowed on campus! Isn't this illegal?
Del
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