TUAW Video: Bently Holding loves Macs

Kamalaspa, that's cool. Kamala means terrible in Finnish, and terrible in a terribly bad way:)

You have a lucky girlfriend so no worries. :)

Went from interesting to creepy fast, huh?:)

7, 10.
You are absolutely right! A reason to visit San Frisco!

HOT HOT HOT!

So?

The IT guys is a sexy beast! :)

@ #5 quandmeme

You bring up a plausible arguement, and one we discuss on occassion. Specifically regarding Quickbooks we use the Windows version; the mac version is a joke in comparison. Window's Quickbooks allows for enterprise level bookkeeping and group collaboration - why they haven't put it on the mac, when a huge and profitable company like ours has requested it (I even go and talk to them at their booth every year), is beyond me. Since it has been useful, we've kept it around on PC (and in the last year + bootcamp then parallels) - but since this is the last software we have on the PC that we need, we're investigating building our own internal system. We've also had difficulty finding a high end building camera system that runs on mac, and have had to use windows based PVR's for the time being (looking at a Linux build now).

Everything else for us has either gone web application per my development/design or we use what mac has made. The web applications were created, not to force the mac to be in the picture, but actually to push us closer to worldwide collaboration in real time and to further our goal of being more and more a 'Green' company. For example: our security team keeps track of photos on their iphoto, but shares them + incidents in my web app that allows them to securely log on, post an event and data (like a blog but more streamlined). I've created internal wiki's (more user friendly and flexible than wikipedia and even Apple's leopard server version we think), dropped squirrel for roundcube, you name it.

So Mac has actually been a financial benefit when you count things such as mail and ichat (which we all use to correspond worldwide) - the X11 environment, and some of the collaboration workflow. MS' lack of any real browser (IE 7 is only an improvement, it still doesn't compete with Mozilla, Opera, and Safari) by default always keeps us comfortable to develop and push things forward, though we know there are work arounds, it creates a forward thinking environment. We rarely have hardware issues, if at all - we rarely have desktop issues. Most of the IT support is on the server level, which Apple needs a lot of growth for and why we use one linux box for development.

From a security standpoint, we've saved thousands of dollars a year on the lack of expenses. Setup and manpower is drastically reduced, and in comparison to when they were a PC shop before my time, user training and troubleshooting time was estimated to be cut near half. We have no interest in moving away.

very very cool :)

Mr. IT Guy Is HOT! ;-)

Wow, that was a very good presentation. Thank-you all around :-)