Apple's Macworld Looking To Corporate Users

coondoggie writes to mention a Network World article about a focus on corporate users at the upcoming MacWorld Expo. Along with the consumer announcements (iTV, iPod stuff), there will be several elements dedicated to introducing IT pros to Apple hardware. From the article: "The show has really evolved. For a long time it was a consumer-oriented show and those of us who are from the enterprise space - there weren't very many of us - would use it as a place to meet and compare notes ... Now Macintosh in the enterprise is becoming more recognized and there are tracks that are specifically for us enterprise people. We don't have to sneak off anymore."

Comments

Not unless they address Corporate needs

[Anonymous Coward]

We deployed many tens of machines in an environment largely dominated by Linux machines. Support for key services like NFS and other standard network protocols (NIS, etc.) was a horrific nightmare. Some of these issues were resolved but the key problem that we had was there is simply no mechanism in place for supporting large corporate enterprise level customers with real adult IT staffs at apple. My room full of 10-20 year veteran engineers was so frustrated with Apple's inability to address enterprise level support issues let us to nearly drop the entire investment into the dumpster. If Apple wants to play in the real world (other than the odd creative suite or home PC market) they had better learn real quick that real businesses have real IT staffs with real networks that have services like kerberos, NFS, NIS and they had better learn to play nice with them instead of expecting people to buy a wall of X-Serve machines. Just my $0.02.

Re:It's hopeless

[armada]

Hiperbole = weak

Hiperbole = not a word. :-)
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