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Firms Upgrading from PCs to Macs ... an Ongoing Report via MacCentral >Resource Management, Inc. is a small, Virginia-based environmental service firm that's expanding into regional offices through investment from a major corporation. All the company's business, marketing and graphics functions have always been performed on Macs. But the mapping department handles digital cartography, geographic information systems, aerial image processing - things traditionally done on UNIX workstations. "We've struggled to avoid the prohibitive costs and inflexibility of UNIX workstations by running most mapping operations on Windows and NT," says Steve Farone, aerial imaging/mapping/GIS. "However, these platforms prove frustrating to work with. We're now settling on a happy medium for all our digital geography labs, featuring WindowsNT boxes networked through pcMacLAN to our speedy G3s via AppleTalk. This allows us to satisfy all the DOS, Windows, and UNIX people we work with, while doing our heavy-lifting and image-polishing with our platform of choice: the Mac OS."< maccentral.com