Mac OS X Labs Deployment Initiative

Richard Glaser writes "Members of the Apple University Executive Forum are working on a project called the Higher Education Mac OS X Lab Deployment Initiative. The web site has our goals, what we've found so far, pointers to areas of ongoing exploration, and a forum where registered members can ask questions and share their findings. We have created a list of resources and tools (including RsyncX, an implementation of rsync with HFS+ support). Apple has recently placed several links to our site from the education area of their web site; we are pleased with this evidence of support of the work we have done so far."

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Makes sense to me

[jeblucas]

Some of the stories mentioned at that link are lame tales of guitar majors wowing friends with digital soundboards, but some of them are really pretty interesting and of value to scientific commmunities. Apple is making a huge push in this realm, and OS X is what's getting them there. Cornell has a protein crystallography group that uses Cocoa apps to help out (impressive screenshot here.

I know my wife's lab is all Macs for CellQuest flow cytometry software, and with BLAST, folding@home, Mathematica's new build and other initiatives, Apple is making strides in scientfic fileds--they have every right to be gassy about it.