On Oct 31, 10:55 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:24:43 -0000,
wrote:

I still think that at least for now, PC is still the machine of
commerce. I don't know of anyone who runs internet business
applications and/or networking on MAC.

Not in the graphic arts business. My brother-in-law runs a small ad
agency and he says they have to run Macs just to be compatible with
everyone they do business with.

I agree totally, that's what MAC shines at for sure. My kid was into
graphic design and used MAC for business and school. Still does, with
a PC OS installed too.. But again, that and some music mixers, and a
few others, not a lot in the contect of "commerce" though. Like I
said, each of these tools can be used for many things, but each has
it's area where it shines.

Here is a quick breakdown, my opinion only of each.

MAC- Professional and commercial Graphic arts, education, music,
virtual creativity.

PC Windows.- General personal and small business use. Finance, web,
Office type apps, general MP? and photo work, for the non-
professional. Light office networking and IP netwoking (web based
networking).

Windows 2000_Professional commerce, financial applications, dedicated
business network, security, bank communications, credit card gateways,
shopping cart and order processing, schedualing, live network
communications and dynamic web based databases, lists... etc...

Unix, Linux, (Apache).. Everything W2K does, only better IP
netoworking, and because it ain't MS, no one bothers writing viruses
for it. Unix machines have the ability with modules to run any MS type
language such as ASP (Active Server Pages). Also supporting many other
commercial lanuages and engines such as PHP, Miva, MySql, etc...

Again, these are very general observations, exceptions may even be the
rule, but I'm just sayin'