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Tom Ford International
That’s Tom Ford as in A Single Man, and his very upmarket clothes design. They had no Macs before I arrived. I set up the first 6, then Tom got one. They love them so much that they have bought a load more and their head IT support person has developed the skills to support them himself. Bother.
N P Mander Ltd
Britain's leading Church Organ builders
Before
4 OS9 Macs and two Windows 85 PCs in 2 workgroups. One machine had email via modem.
Now
9 Macs AND 2 XP PCs on a linked network. Snow Leopard server for shared files, contacts and calendars, and Kerio Mail server for email.
C Hurst & Co Ltd
Publishers of political and academic books. http://www.hurstpub.co.uk
Before
One Mac Classic (remember them? Early 90s?)
Now
a handful of Macs including a Snow Leopard server, running Kerio for email, and a custom FileMaker database. Plenty of remote access, including an iPhone for mail, calendar etc.
Native Design
An industrial design company in the City, with a client list including Mercedes, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Epson, B&W loudspeakers.
Before
There were a handful of PCs in a workgroup, 2 Mac laptops and a few desktop machines all running OS 9, no back up, no internal email, slow internet access.
Now
They have a fully integrated network based around a Windows Small Business Server 2003. All files are now stored centrally and fully backed up. Users have remote access to their internal and external email via a website or mobile devices. A remote site is linked in for overflow designers.
First Choice Holidays, Crawley
Before
A network of 500 PCs in their Crawley Office, with a couple of unconnected Macs purely for receiving graphic files from their designers in Leeds,with no dedicated Mac support.
After
4 new Macs in Crawley and one in Lanzarote for ISDN file transfer. They liked the Macs so much that they bought a load more and took on a dedicated Mac support person