The issue of platforms actually does become important and more so than if you just like one more than the other. I don't want to bash this issue, but last week the New York Times reported Apple stock fell 58% and things are not so rosy it seems, and today in the Wall Street Journal Apple looks like its going to take another hit..with lost sales and production goals... worlwide sales dropped to 3.2% . The issue really is important - Coulter once invested heavily in the Terak system becuase it had fantastic graphics (and it did..) it was very expensive and many people invested .. (like us) but I suspect there is not a single one operating today. B-D appears to be walking a fine line - they went from HP I think to MACs and from what I could gather at the ISAC meeting in May they appear to be pushing a hybrid PC data collection system and a MAC analysis system. It is unclear to me if they are going to PC or not. I suspect that you don't just jump from one platform to the other --- anyway, this is an issue of sorts since in looking to purchase a new system for our lab, I need to appreciate the complicating factors of how to deal with a lab that has 40 odd PCs and a MAC......and the real question for me is not how good the MAC is, but how long it will be around....is the cube another NEXT...??? I like FloJo by the way - think its great software !!! Paul Robinson On 30 Sep 2000, at 11:06, Adrian Smith wrote: And even if you are using the "other" platform for acqusition, you can always buy a Mac just to run FlowJo. Some of us think it is that good... Adrian >Paul, > >Like you and many others in this world, I have one of the other 90% of the >computers at home. I do not like it, but the other major occupant of the >household (my wife) required it for her job. However, like 90% of the Folw >Cytometry users out there, I have a BD instrument that uses a MAC to acquire >and analyze my data. So, I subscribe to the "do work at work" theory and >use the MAC, which by the way I do prefer. Mario's (and Adam's) FlowJo >software is a very nice alternative, and any software that is an alternative >to paying big bucks to certain Flow companies should be most heartily >encouraged. > >So, let Mario plug away and let the users of the minority instruments tout >their advantages if they wish as well. That is, if there are any??? > >Randy Fischer >NIAMS/NIH > >> ---------- >> From: J. Paul Robinson >> Reply To: jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu >> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:23 PM >> To: Cytometry Mailing List >> Subject: Re: G4 for FACSCalibur - and a dig at Mario!! >> >> >> So Mario, when are you going to talk about software that runs on computers >> that >> the other 90% plus that people have.......in terms of world computer >> sales, Apple is right up there at .....4%!! > > Paul >> > > > J.Paul Robinson, PhD PH:(765)4940757 Professor of Immunopharmacology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University FAX:(765)4940517 EMAIL:jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu WEB: http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
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