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We currently run 90 solid-state machines with a cutdown version of windows XP for showing websites and presentations to clients.
It's been very obvious recenlty that these machines are not up to scratch, so we have been looking around for cheap replacements. We've just received our first machine: a Mini Mac.
I don't think we will bother ordering the others. It's just fantastic, does all we want, runs seemlessly with our windows network and was incrediably easy to configure.
We already have a couple of Macs in our Graphic Design department, but I've never got passed using Safari on them to test browser compatibility for my websites.
I have already put in an order for a home version.
The only issue we have so far is trying to install an Oracle client on the machine, we've had to start fiddling in the shell to do some global variable stuff and still can't quite get it working (I think it's really a Oracle problem with their shoddy install support for Macs to be honest). But I am back in again tomorrow to try to figure it out.
If anyone has experience installing Oracle on a OS X let me know cause I mioght need some help. But at the moment I am enjoying playing the silly-dinosaur game when the boss is at lunch (which beats Hearts and Minehunter any day).
I followed Step 1 of [url:http://creativi.st/blog/articles/2005/06/25/rails-oracle-client-on-mac-os-x]these directions[/url] to get sql*plus installed.
Also, we just purchased SQL4X Manager J, and I think I'm going to use this to connect to Oracle DB's in the future. It's a little slow, but it's easy to use and lets us to connect to our MS SQL Servers and MySQL servers too.
