Perry,

>No, Mac buyers are not geeks. But, I've seen one company in the last 10 years that standardized around the Mac. And it was ugly. The CFO believed that the MAC was so easy, that they didn't really need an IS staff. So the company I worked at which was the same size of about 750 people, had an IS staff of 40. At the Mac shop they had 3. And no developers.

OK, so what happened? You say it was ugly and give the comparison stats, but what happened at the Mac site? Where did the "ease of use" argument break down?

>So I don't see the world clamouring for Macs yet, either.

I would say that whatever starts stealing share from MS will never be able to do it in a "clamouring" fashion thanks to MS's monopoly on the desktop. It will be slow, but doesn't mean that it can't happen.

Merry Christmas!

JoeK