how many people are still using 3.x on OS 9?

Japanese QXP users. Mostly, the Japanese market uses Illustrator for layout, but they use 3.3.1J (I think) if they use QXP at all. QXP 4.x+ doesn't properly support Japanese language fonts. I'm not sure, but I think other asian font sets may fall into this category as well (Chinese and Korean, for example).

In the past, I have handled this question in a number of ways. First, you need to establish how necessary it is to their jobs to work on a platform different from the rest of the company. This doesn't have to be a platform war. There are plenty of reasons for them to want a different platform, pick your battles carefully. If it is still necessary that the Windows boxes remain, establish who the admins are for the boxes. If your endusers insist they can administer the boxes,I would refuse to allow them to attach it to the network. It's all very well and good for them to be technically savvy, but the network is still your responsiblity.

However if you administer the machine, and I realize it's probably not your first choice, you need to start reading up on Windows. Yes, there's a lot to keep up with, however their can be some advantages to understanding different platforms and being able to administer and secure them in the same environment. And regardless of how any one feels about it, Window is still the most common business environment.

Additionally, I see several post that seem to question the legitimacy of the original question. This *is* a legitimate question, as any one who has had samba and appletalk on the same network can tell you. Discussing security concerns when integrating two very different platforms with different vulnerabilities is more than reasonable for any Administrator, especially in a small business environment where the only other "collegues" they may have access to are the very same users insisting on the installing their own boxes.