Owing to uncertainties about availability of software . In 1996, John Garman, chief information officer of NASA's Johnson Space Center, announced that the center would be going all Windows. The ensuing controversy raged for two years on the Web, via e-mail, and in the nation's newspapers. But you don't just tell the nation's leading scientists and researchers that you're taking away their favorite tools. Today, Garman is long gone, and NASA is buying more Macs.
Customers can select the platforms they want and the service they require.
That's good news to people like Joe Williams, rendezvous guidance and procedures officer. I'm the guy sitting in the front-center row of the Mission Control Center, the one with the PowerBook 5300cs. The pressure was on. In July, BellSouth and Apple published a joint press release. Not every Mac triumph involves a major corporation.