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I have known a few demented Mac users (of various subtypes) in my time (including myself,) but have never met one so powerful as described as to initiate an entire development project like that. I surmise the situation described is a mixed computing environment. I have been in such a situation but it developed into two camps where they were both self sufficient entities. I suppose one could have a totally mixed corporate environment but one side usually wins out with the Macs usually being the ousted camp - if the company is not a graphics design firm. I had thought all these battles were long finished in corporate America, but I guess not.

As a long time (and solely) Mac user, I have wanted a few things (not many) from the Windows world but didn't seem to have a problem living without them. Only until very recently when there was something I really NEEDED to do for business purposes that only was available on Windows (a very small custom safety questionaire application required by a customer), I went to Circuit City and bought a cheap PC for $350. The other way to go would have been to install emulation software on a new Mac but buying the intel hardware was/is cheaper than the emulator/new mac and there are fewer potential problems and learning curves. Actually, I didn't have to do either and could have traveled 1,600 miles to take a one hour safety orientation in the plant but figured economically I'd be ahead. That computer has had about 4 hours of use and 3 of those hours was in trying to get the windows application to work on my "fully configured" PC. I don't even like to fool with the UNIX command line on my mac.... heh

I have known a few demented Mac users (of various subtypes) in my time (including myself,) but have never met one so powerful as described as to initiate an entire development project like that.

User keeps pestering helpdesk, helpdesk has no means of doing anything about it -> pesters admin, admin calls developers if there is a mac version, and somehow each link in the chain. It's the repetition mostly.

I suppose one could have a totally mixed corporate environment but one side usually wins out with the Macs usually being the ousted camp - if the company is not a graphics design firm.

Except for a few scattered excentrics, it was one department that made the company newspaper that held most of the macs. That department was also the most vocal.

I went to Circuit City and bought a cheap PC for $350.

Typical solution for a small business owner, but not for an employee, and certainly not in a large corporation. See also above, the requests are not always ultimatum. It is the constant nudges and requests over a long time.

I don't even like to fool with the UNIX command line on my mac.... heh

Why is that? It is the only useful part :-)