Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, 2005 @06:54AM 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.'"

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I for one... by xAXISx · 2005-07-22 06:56 · Score: -1, Redundant

...welcome our new apple overlords.
Re:Great! by johndierks · 2005-07-22 07:19 · Score: -1, Redundant

I am in the same boat. OS X gives you a way to dip your toe in the big ocean of Linux.
I had a redhat machine for a while and tried to get a foothold, but was confused about compiling applications and finding RPMs wasn't very consistent.

Most OS X users probably don't even know they're running a flavor of Linux, but they can slowly get more involved with that world while as they feel comfortable.