Re: [WinMac] To convert Mac->Windows, should I bother?

From: Dean Suhr (deansuhr[at]carpedis.com)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 17:41:39 PST

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    I will only throw one more consideration at you - and it has nothing to do
    with software compatibility or the future job market. It is something that
    I live in mild fear of for two NT server networked systems that I support on
    a volunteer basis.

    That fear is of viruses and the resulting down time, data loss, and/or
    damage. The cost of virus damage needs to be counted - and it's not "if",
    it's "when" you will be affected. You will find that at your busiest times
    is when you will be receiving documents via disk, CD, e-mail, etc. and it's
    when you can least afford to be hit - yet it is when you are most vulnerable
    because data is coming at you from all directions.

    The Mac is not without viruses - but there are dozens of PC viruses for
    every Mac virus.

    Been there - and have had viruses on both platforms. I sleep better knowing
    that my primary data and work is on a Mac.

    Dean

    >on 12/28/00 9:53 AM, H. Knight at hknight_2000@yahoo.com wrote:

    > I am in charge of my high school's newspaper computer systems. We are
    > currently are running 6 imacs and 2 other older computers that we are
    > planning on replacing. These are linked to a G4 Server through a
    > AppleTalk ethernet connection.

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