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Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs
nonsuchworks writes "MacWorld quotes a Jupiter Research report on the increasing penetration of Mac OS X in the business world. From the article: 'The report found that in businesses with 250 employees or more, 17 percent of the employees were running Mac OS X on their desktop computer at work. In Businesses that had 10,000 or more employees, 21 percent of employees used Mac OS X on their desktop work computer.' Analyst Joe Wilcox adds, 'Companies that were considering Linux are now buying Mac OS X instead.'"
After all, this is from the people who've been telling us that that PowerPC processors are as fast as Intel chips for years now.
I have, in my relatively short career, worked for numerous large corporations (5000+ employees, Bell and Southern Company for example) and have only known the print shop and the marketing department to use Macs. I cannot think of one instance of someone using a Mac on a day-to-day basis. What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Mod me down if I'm wrong but this has been my experience.
/. spaztech
Nope, it's because of endorsements like this from the CEOs of many top corporations.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
*cough* Horseshit. Making generalized statements usually only shows how ignorant you are. Every business I've ever walked into, worked at, researched and/or started has had multple OSes installed on-site. Be it multiple families of Windows, OSX, Linux servers, etc. My company (800+ users in 4 countires) has the following, all on desktop machines.
-Mac OS 9
-Mac OS X
-Windows 95
-Windows 98
-Windows ME *shudder*
-Windows 2000
-Windows XP
-Red Hat 7.1
Give us real numbers to back up your claim and people might not think your head's up your ass.
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
I went from Windows user, to Linux user, to Mac user (bought a Powerbook and and 2x Mac Minis), and I'm starting to yearn back for Linux.
I've gotten really, really happy with my Linux desktop at home (SuSE 9.3).
It does more than my Macs do, and configuration is really easy.
Reasons I'm leaning back to Linux:
1. Codeweaver's Crossover Office. Yes, this might become avaliable for Mac, sometime in the future. Depends on me finding an intel Mac, depends on Codeweaver finishing the port. There are some Windows apps I really like to have.
2. VMware is significantly faster than Virtual PC. Intel macs might change this, as well.
3. Cedega. No Half-Life 2 on Mac. No Guild Wars on Mac. Intel macs may change this as well, but there will be additional problems compared to the above 2 ports.
4. OpenOffice.org 2.0. NeoOffice/J is klunky. OpenOffice.org 2 in XDarwin is klunkier. OpenOffice.org 2.0 on my SuSE 9.3 system is smooth as silk.
5. I *like* KDE. I've spent the past 3 days trying to get KDE to work properly on my powerbook in a full screen X. Each time I try to install it I get a compile error in FinkCommander. I thought this stuff was supposed to be automatic? Either way, SuSE handles it for me; Yes, the hardware is easier to configure with a Mac (because it comes configured). But my software (That I like to use) is actually easier on Linux, because SuSE configured *everything* for me, Out-Of-Box.
6. Finder. Finder sucks. When Finder looses some network shares, it freezes. Sometimes, you cannot even force quit it or force restart it. This drives me bonkers. Also, you cannot use finder to upload to an FTP; FTP shares are read only. Konqueror beats the pants of finder.
7. Much more GUI customization. With the advent of Kompmgr and Superkaramba, I feel that KDE has a similar level of eye candy as the Mac. With whats on the horizon for Xorg I expect KDE to superceede OS X soon.
8. Easier to mess with software. I had to wait for Tiger to get Java 1.5 on my Mac OS X. That was like 8 months behind my Linux box, which made a *huge* difference, because Ameritrade's Java streamer app is not stable in older versions of Java (would regularly crash Safari).
9. Far, far cheaper hardware. My Athlon 64 3200+ with a Geforce 6800 GT beats the crap out of anything Apple manufacturers right now, at any price. I paid significantly less than an iMac for this setup.
Gotta go, but these are a few of the reasons. There are many more. Don't get me wrong, I recommend Mac OS X to everyone else; I won't deal with their Windows problems anymore, and I see OS X as the way out. But for me, I feel limited in OS X compared to Linux.
WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
No they gave the troll's mod points, and they modded you a troll.
I'm far, far more comfortable in either KDE or Gnome than I'm likely to ever be dealing with a flakey 1-button mouse and a dock that won't stay the same size or keep frequently used icons in the same spot.
The one-button mouse? What are you a retard? Buy a fucking mouse or a trackball, and don't worry you can plug in your new one without rebooting....NeXT
And I'm a lot more comfortable doing a lot of tasks from the CLI than from any desktop. And I'm sure as hell not happy with all the parts of the filesystem that OSX hides and the UNIX commands that I'm locked out of and all the other eccentricities of the system.
Okay, CLI brainiac, so use the console to see everything, or enable show invisibles in the Finder, or use a pure NeXT file finder. So fuckin' 'smart' with terminals you can't run ls and top. get the fugouddahere with the crybaby shit, did ya tell Mom you spent 20 seconds on a Mac and it wasn't cool? Poor baby...back to butt-ugly flaky linux, boy.HAHAHAHAHAHA
And I could do without the damned genie crap and the other icandy too.
One word for you, lamer: defaults. What a toad...stay away from debian, we got enough suicidally depressed 'smart' guys already, heheh
Now you can like OSX all you want, but don't tell me I can't call it a pain in my ass. That's for my ass to tell me.
Tell me somethin'...when your ass is giving you opinions on stuff your mental midget's brain can't handle...um, is the advice/opinion accompanied by a bad odor, and an echo? I think I might know what's going on there. So pull yer head outta there, take a long hot bath, and find a girl (fer christ's sake) with a room temperature IQ to explain OS X to ya. Loser
OS X: Because it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows