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Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs

Posted by Zonk on from the moving-on-up dept.

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.'"

5 of 585 comments (clear)

  1. But .. by karvind · · Score: 5, Funny

    But you told me One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense

  2. In other news by glsunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    After publishing a questionable study about macs, Jupiter Research's exposure went up dramatically.

  3. Re:Great! by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Most OS X users probably don't even know they're running a flavor of Linux"

    I think that would be news to everyone, including the OS X developers.

    --
    Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
  4. Re:Less is not more? by tolkienfan · · Score: 4, Funny
    Please!

    The collective term for Unix systems is boxen.

    The collective term for Windows is "crap"

  5. Important research! by jfengel · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should definitely publish your results in J. Anecdotal Evidence.