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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.'"

11 of 585 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Give me a break. OSX's interface blows and has about as much innovation as bill gates's left nut, which like everything else associated with microsoft isn't very much.

    In the realm of controlling marketshare, apple is NO BETTER than microsoft. And for the quality of user experience, they are probably worse since their UI is decidedly even more annoying and cumbersome to use than windows.

  2. Re:Great! by Despised · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mac OS X Can't over take linux because linux is based off of BSD, which is a macosx derivative

  3. Re:I call shenanigans on that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Pry is not a word, and it certainly is not the word "probably"

  4. Re:I think they meant.... by The+Warlock · · Score: 0, Troll

    Horseshit. In most businessess, everyone uses the same OS and probably the same kind of computer.

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  5. Re:Great! by Laz7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Working in a school district, I can tell you that with one exception, all the teachers using OSX are completely unaware of many things, this included.

  6. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    what, that you post on slashdot or that they aren't running a flavor of linux (which seems pretty reasonable to me in both cases)?

  7. Re:I think they meant.... by Listen+Up · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why, because you are a Linux zeolot afraid to admit Apple is kicking your ass in the OS market?

    That sounds more likely.

  8. Re:Great! by eclectic4 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Seriously, I think OS X is way less daunting than Linux."

    Huh? OS X is way less daunting than Windows too!.

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  9. Re:Great! by Moofie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, because OS X doesn't have one of those command shell thingies. ...right.

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  10. Re:Great! by Tolleman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well you shouldnt really use Mac OS X as a example of great hardware support. Thats like saying that VCR's has good hardware support.

  11. price? by Rickler · · Score: 0, Troll

    What company is going to fork out 2.5k just for a macbox that doesn't even include a monitor keyboard and dumbass one button mouse? Any company that wants to not save money.

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