Computer Geeks in Movies.

[Lady's Human]

For what Windows costs, upfront and for long term support, it had better have a HUGE on call support base. Same goes for Mac OS. Tailored Unix OS will have a much smaller on call support base, the users would likely know that up front.

When I have a LAN handling data which is going to cost the company $50-60K/hour when it's down due to the changes in workflow it would create (for instance the image handling network in a plant in the USPS), I can't afford to have a small support base. I need to be able to get it up and running NOW, not when the three geeks who wrote the code are available.

So you brought the printer an unsupported format and that cost your company more money but that isnt the point?

Please dont complain to the Mayor that I used Opera, a free web browser, to correct the spelling in the your post I quoted.

The amount of money wasn't the point for me, I passed the cost on to the end customer who was annoyed, but when it was explained he understood. He wasn't paying attention to the total costs when he chose his office system, and wound up paying more in the end.

As to the spelling corrections, why would I give a damn?