More Macs making their way to enterprise
- April 28th, 2008
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Before I left my last IT job, one giant task I had was converting all the office PCs to Macs. It took about two years to phase it all in, but then we didn’t have a specified budget in mind. Whenever a new user came, they got a Mac. When someone was in need of an upgrade, they got a Mac. Everything was fine, and according to InfoWorld, they’re not alone.
More and more companies are turning to their IT departments to outfit them with Macs. OSX is more secure than Windows and needs less maintenance, or at least that’s the general opinion.
Apple doesn’t have a full enterprise solution yet, but as its market share keeps growing, it’s a likely possibility. Apple’s forays into business software — Keynote and the rest of the iWork package — are solid offerings. What’s missing is a server-centric ecosystem, but with Xserves already in place, it could be only a matter of time.
Constable Odo (Who am I?)
3 months ago
So how many are we talking here? Ten Macs or fifty? Apple still seems to have a long way to go before we’re talking 20,000 Macs in a corporation. All the IT guys will threaten to go on strike if they had to switch over to a large number of Macs. It’s like in that old beer commercial. They’d rather fight than switch. Hehe.
WT (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Constable Odo, I can assure you that “all the IT guys will threaten to go on strike”. The more Macs we install in our company, the less time we work on weekends.
We’d rather switch than fight Windows.
Partners in Grime (Who am I?)
3 months ago
The iPhone SDK may speed things along.