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To: Marc Newman who wrote (10653)	4/6/1998 12:42:00 AM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

<<They love their G3s at my friend's UC-Berkeley genetics lab too.>> Yes, pharmaceutical and bio research labs seem to like Macs. Last estimate I saw (last year) put Macs at over 60 percent in pharm research companies. When I was at Merck Research Labs, wintels only made up 20 percent of what we supported. (We have around 2000 Macs at the Rahway research facility). And when I was at Lucent Technologies although we got rid of Macs in the admin facilities (secretaries, management chowder-heads, and such) the engineers, multi-media designers and developers got to keep their Macs. Engineers at Lucent I associated with seemed to like tinkering with wintel PCs, but they did their work and personal stuff on Macs. Their word to pointy-haired management was always "data is data. It doesn't matter what we use just as long as we can get our work done efficiently." -Bill_H