11, 2008 at 10:35 AM -0400 wrote:
>I am going to suggest Windows PCs/Servers, even though I'm a mac user at
>h ome. You're running a high school and building it from the ground up
>soo this is your shot to get it right from the start. Macs are consumer
>PoCs and are not geared for the enterprise market at this point.
With all due respect, this is an erroneous statement. Macs are alive and
well and preferred in many enterprise organizations. I'm at WWDC now and
I've spoken with programmers and users from IBM, Genetench, Los Alamos,
etc. More and more companies are moving part or all to Mac because of the
ease of use.
>Also, macs will always cost double to receive the same effect you can get
>Afrom Windows PCs, no matter how creative they are with their pricing.
Also an erroneous statement. In fact, its the opposite. In order to get a
PC *up* to the specs of a Mac, the PC usually costs more. Lastly, if you
spoke with an Apple rep and put everything together into a package, you
will almost definitely receive a discount. Yes, we are a mostly Mac
school, but that's because I didn't really want to spend most of my time
wrestling with Windows stupid errors (Vista anyone?). However, we have
plenty of Windows machines (mostly running on Mac hardware)
Ultimately, the real question you want to ask is: what kind of services do
we want to provide to our users (students, faculty, and admin)? Are you
going to provide storage for all users (home folders), are you going to
provide email, etc. Different schools have different approaches, but
instead of thinking about the platform first, think about what you want to
provide and work from there. I happen to think Macs can do just about
everything, but if you had a programmatic *need* for MS Exchange, for
example, then that might dictate that aspect of your setup. In some cases,
its what your IT Director is most comfortable with because they'll be
managing the system.
My $.02.
Peter Hoopes
Director of Technology
St. Andrew's School
phoopes@standrews-de.org
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