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Most people who work in enterprises don't work in IT so they don't care about admin tools etc. Most people work in marketing, sales, accounting, finance, logistics or manufacturing and all the software for all those departments runs on Windows. Middle market accounting software for Mac? Does not exist. Manufacturing/inventory control software for Mac? Nope. Contractor estimating/job costing? You get the picture.

ORLY?

Twenty years ago, that was definitely the case. Not anymore. Here are but a few examples:

Productivity/Project Management BTW, this has been around for many years.

Contact Management/Planning/Marketing

Accounting (also has been around for DECADES)

Manufacturing/Inventory Control/ERP (VERY Robust, been around for years. Cross-Platform, Semi-Open Source) I write ERP software for a living, and this is GOOD stuff!!!

Job Costing. XTuple does that, too; but here is but one example: A highly-rated Job Costing/Estimating package that is cross platform. Job Costing software tends to be more "vertical"; so I would have to point you to an agregator site, like this one.

Now, don't think these are the ONLY solutions in each of these categories; because they aren't. They are just ones that were easy to find, and/or that I was familiar with on some level. A bit of poking around will quickly show that there are many other alternatives in most, if not all, of these categories.

Does Windows still have the upper-hand when it comes to business Applications? Without a doubt; but that picture has seriously been changing over the past decade, and as Macs start to encroach more and more in the business world, there will certainly be more attention paid to the platform by business Application Publishers. And in another decade, your post may very well be simply a joke.

Times change; a few decades ago, CP/M was supposed to be the "business" OS but there was no "business software" available. A couple of decades ago, businesses, including Apple itself, ran primarily custom-built business software on AS/400s and the like. Who's to say what the future holds?

As a user of the real iPhoney I'm offended you would say that.

http://www.marketcircle.com/iphoney/

It only works on the Mac.

I wonder how they got the information to build this....

If you are on a Mac the Daylite Productivity Suite is an interesting step forward. It has pretty neat mail integration. Disclaimer : I am in no way affiliated with MarketCircle.

Sticking with Entourage may be a problem, though.

You might want to look at or evaluate these:

Crm4Mc 2.0
    http://www.ibizzi.com/

DayChaser : Econ Technologies
    http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/DayChas er/daychaser_overview.html

DayLite : Marketcircle
    http://www.marketcircle.com/

ecOrganizer
    http://www.ecorganizer.com/

intuiware : HotPlan
    http://www.intuiware.com/

Now Software : Now up to date
    http://www.nowsoftware.com/

Organizer software by CSoftLabs
    http://www.csoftlab.com/

Pure Mac : Personal Information Managers
    http://www.pure-mac.com/pims.html

RadicalBreeze.com - Formation
    http://www.radicalbreeze.com/formation/index.shtml

SOHO Organizer
    http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.h tml

OD4Contact
    http://objective-decision.com/en/

Check out this app. It's generally well-regarded in the Mac community. Does rather more than calendaring, though.

-jcr

One of my clients has been the main beta-tester for a Mac centric Calendar program called Daylite.

http://www.marketcircle.com/daylite/index.html

It's a groupware based calendar system. Works great over VPN connections into the server. Apparenly the new version also plugs into some of Apples apps directly.

We've been using it for a good while now and it's finally coming into shape because of the all feedback my client gave to the company.

Much much better than using Apple Remote Desktop.

Best,

C

Ya but something a little more groupware like. A client that includes real group calendaring and an server based address book that is more robust than Address Book. Address is a weak Ldap client.

Currently my small business is using DayLite for OS X. I happy with it but it still leaves a bit to be desired- integrated email, a shared calendar that allows you to invite attendees... And it isn't open. But I do really like is focus on sale force automation.

Have a look at Daylite, http://www.marketcircle.com/, it offers similar functionality to Act. It is availible in single and multiuser versons, but is Mac OS X only.