By drupaljimbo on

Forgive me Drupal community for my newbie-ness...I'm a retired statistician with database experience that has found himself the new IT guy for a small business that has just lost the current IT guy who is almost finished with a new revision of the company website using Drupal 7.

Before I even learn drupal and get myself up to speed I need some help with hardware. I'm old enough to know how submit programs in batch and write JCL - but hung up those hats long ago. I even gave up my old gateway laptop (which lasted forever) for a Macbook.

As small businesses can be - technology is a miss-mash of apple and windows pcs with various OS to choose from - no network - nothing.

This is what I have inherited since I"m the only one even remotely interested in taking over the IT type stuff for this business.

I've been told from the outgoing IT guy that it doesn't matter what I load DRUPAL on - mac or pc - but am concerned about compatibility...for example mac vs. pc and microsoft products.

My macbook and home iMAC are souped up and should by what I've read handle Drupal just fine, but am wondering if it might be better to go out and get me a windows 8.1 machine?

thanks in advance for any and all help/advice and rest assured I'll be asking more questions since I have absolutely no help and deadlines

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Comments

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

Just install http://www.acquia.com/products-services/dev-desktop

And host your finished product on a proper Linux-based server.

drupaljimbo’s picture

drupaljimbo commented

Thank you - and I realized based on responses that I've been away too long - we actually pay an outside hosting service -- we do not run our own server - thus what I should have asked was best environment for development which I'm seeing that my little world of apples is just fine

Am I right in this conclusion ?

Thanks again

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The preferred environment is linux which should make mac a better choice than windows (though from the forums it does not seem straightforward). Windows works fine as a development environment is you are running a WAMP stack (windows, apache, mysql, php).