Archive for May, 2008
Apple as an enterprise challenger?
There has been much talk recently about Apple’s making inroads into the corporate marketplace, with some blogs and journals seeing the company’s recent successes in the consumer sphere as providing impetus to the Macs adoption in companies instead of the machines from the Wintel duopoly. Indeed there have been several high profile leaks (notably two from IBM and Peoplesoft) regarding research projects into widespread Mac adoption within large corporate companies.
As a Mac specialist at a large corporate company with 700 Macs and about 5000 PCs, I am probably better placed than most to comment as I see the day to day demands that such an environment puts on it’s computer estate and the things that we as Mac integrators have to do to go some way toward meeting those requirements on the Mac platform.
Apple have made some changes in the last few years that make the Mac a more realistic proposition for IT departments for example the adoption of (more or less) standard hardware and the provision of integration into some of the systems that larger IT departments use.
I’d like to explore here some of the things that Apple do well and some not so well. Incidentally, I may add to this posting as more things occur to me. Read more
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