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.'"

Comments

Re:I think they meant....

[over_exposed]

*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.

Re:Great!

[WhiteWolf666]

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.