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I will be sojourning into the world of Mac for the first time soon as my daughter has kindly bequeathed her old laptop to me as a consequence of her purchase of a brand new one. She’s a chemist and has resided in the technical arena of Apple her whole school/professional career. I will be 62 next August, but only recently graduated from college. My degree is a BS in business with an Information Systems focus. That, of course, is totally Windows based. However, I became involved with GIS software, and am currently in the process with a partner and working with the university here in Fresno, CA, to develop some web-based applications for specific business needs. I have purchased a couple of ESRI’s ArcView/ArcGIS programs, and am working with them. I understand that there are no plans to make their software Mac compatible, which is a shame since they are the gold standard in the GIS world. But, my question is, do you know of anyone that does have Mac compatible GIS software? From what little I know of Mac, it only seems natural that one would greatly benefit from the better technical qualities of Mac operating system and hardware. I would appreciate any guidance you can offer me. Thanks, and I enjoy reading your website content and articles.