rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard E. Stuart) (10/16/87)
Hello there, I have been trying to help a friend of mine buy some computers for his medical supplies business. He wants to blow ~$25,000. I have been trying to talk him into buying hardware that is on the upswing of its "usefulness bell curve," that will be reasonable for him to maintain, and that will be easy for his employees to learn. Hence, I have been trying to talk him into staying away from PC (DOS) trash and consider Mac SEs in distributed environment. I have had problems though. First, I have not been able to find a company in the Pittsburgh area that is capable enough for the job. Because there are an incredible number of medical facilities in Pittsburgh the competion he faces is great, and he cannot afford to waist time and money on something that will not really do the job. My friend needs to deal with a company that knows what it is doing. Secondly, one thing that I can say for the DOS turnkey systems that I have seen is that there is a fair number of them that seem to do the job well. I have run into nothing of the kind for the Macs. What to do? rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu