The Mac attracts switchers in science

By Barb Dybwad

Beverly, Massachusetts biotechnology firm Cell Signaling
Technology (CST) made the decision to move all 100
of their staff to the Mac platform from a terminal/server environment. The deciding factor? The Mac OS X
operating system.

IT Manager Carlos Del Castillo found the Linux desktop environment to be too quirky for end users. But OS X met the needs of both science and business staff:

"Macs give our scientists all the tools they need for research and production — from Perl script development to tools
that enable mass spectrometry, sequence and molecular structure analysis. And they support us on the business end as
well."

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