OT: Apple at 30 - My Piece of the Big Fruit

[kee nethery]

Similar story, I was beta testing a Lisa at Chevron Research and we  
justified the purchase ($10K as I recall) solely on on the project  
management software app on the Lisa.

Kee Nethery


> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Jim Carwardine wrote:
>
>>
>> A year or so later, Apple came out with MacProject and I used it  
>> to create
>> and manage a disaster recovery system for Aramco (THE oil company)  
>> where we
>> were able to recover yesterday's production (all 7 terabytes of  
>> it) and
>> rerun all the reports within 26 hours of bringing the backup tapes  
>> on site.
>> It was so remarkable that our mainframe supplier - IBM - brought  
>> their IBM
>> Europe brass to Saudi to see us demo our system and they all sat  
>> in our
>> boardroom watching a Mac Plus do it's magic... Jim