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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonnyd" data-source="post: 396403" data-attributes="member: 31029">Probably more realistic.I have had ' debates' about this before, but in my experience it's not actually very practical to integrate Macs into an existing Windows network - I used a G5 for a while on our network at Work (Win2k server), and while I could get most things going, there were some that wouldn't - it was at the time pretty much impossible to configure the Mac to run correctly through an ISA firewall - I could get html traffic going OK, but things like OSX updates and other wierd protocols defeated me. I took it out after a couple of weeks and reverted to Windows.Unless you're going to scrap everything and go with Mac from top to bottom, you'll get no advantage, and you'll end up supporting 2 completely different sets of users. Can't see it justifying the cost.My brother is IT director for a publishing group, witha around 3,500 stations on a wan. They used to run mostly Macs up to about 5 years ago. They started moving over to Windows for cost reasons (as traditional 'mac only' apps became available for other platforms), and now don't use Macs at all. He says the transition, when they had to support both types was a nightmare - his costs were way over what they would have been with a  sinlge OS, as he had to have Windows AND Mac support staff.Course, now they could have Intel Macs, but as simple workstations they're far too expensive - it's true to say that a Mac pro and a high spec PC aren't so different in price, but 90% of the stations on any Windows network aren't high end. An Intel Mac starts at what - $1k? There's nothing cheaper. You can get a low spec Dell for half that, which is all you need for most office based operations.</blockquote>

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