Re:German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
by gaius on Monday July 07, 2008 @11:20AM
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That's a bit skewed by the thousands of machines in render farms that could be running any (free/bundled) Unix. It'll be interesting to see if OSX Server 10.6 gives them a compelling reason to switch.
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Re:German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
by Tamerlin on Monday July 07, 2008 @12:39PM
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It isn't likely, since most of the high-end shops have a lot of custom software on those Linux machines, and even their Linux distros are in many cases heavily customized, beyond what they'd be able to do with OSX.
Smaller FX shops that don't have IT staff are much more likely to consider it, unless they rely on software that isn't available in OSX, like XSI.
Which reminds me, now Houdini is available for OSX (it might still be beta, but it's coming if not here already).