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Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:

: Bullshit.  The large companies using Mac's do have sysadmins, exactly like
: the large companies using Unix.  The life of the Mac sysadmin is made
: considerably harder by the fact that Joe Mac User can screw his machine.
: Joe Unix User can't.

Gee- I guess that explains why I was the sole Mac support person for a 
good-sized university, and I worked about 10 hours a week supporting 
aboua a hundred Macs, while there was an average of one unix administrator 
for every three unix machines... and I had to fill in my hours by helping 
the Windows guys do software installs, while the unix guys were always 
sweating some problem or other.

Most really large Mac installations have full-time Mac admins because 
they also have things like laser printers and other peripherals, and to 
do things like evaluate new software to see if it works, and to perform 
tasks like installing extra RAM or adding new drives.  I've never seen a 
Mac admin having to work hard at all at *any* site.

: The home Unix user doesn't hire any kind of sysadmin, exactly like the
: home Mac user.

...which is why there are so few home unix machines.  Aside from a few 
dedicated hobbyists and future Comp. Sci. majors, unix is a *tiny* 
fraction of the home market.  And until someone comes up with a way for 
someone to deal with a "home" unix machine without having to worry about 
all of the obscure details of unix administration, it won't make any 
inroads in that market, either.


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