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Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?
coondoggie sends us a NetworkWorld story on the prospects for Apple gaining market share in the corporation. A number of factors are helping to catch the eye of those responsible for upgrading desktops and servers, the article claims: "Apple's shift to the Intel architecture; the inclusion of infrastructure and interoperability hooks, such as directory services, in the Mac OS X Server; dual-boot capabilities; clustering and storage technology; third-party virtualization software; and comparison shopping, which is being fostered by migration costs and hardware overhauls associated with Microsoft's Vista." On this last point, one network admin is quoted: "The changes in Vista are significant enough that we think we can absorb the change going to Macs just as easily as going to Vista."
Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?
Why not? They're already penetrating consumers.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Ditto. I'm curious about those costs too because I've been multi-platform for so long I can't even relate to the idea of training people to learn how to click on a brushed metal window instead of a Microsoft one. I know that Start Button / Apple menu is going to cause wholesale panic around the company cafeteria.
Corporate riot ensues, Wall Street collapses, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
Just explaining the lack of a BSD is going to be comedy gold baby! And the OSX wirly rainbow thingie is also sure to be a barn-burner. Start those camcorders for YouTube, and kick back and enjoy the fun.
The fact is, that the corporate higher crust is literally in love with Bill and Microsoft, the poster boy of the Wall Street crowd.
More like, they're the battered wives of a megalomaniacal polygamist. It's not so much love as fear that keeps them where they are.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
By way of example, I understand that the Vatican is evaluating the X-Serve group's latest content filtering product, the X-Communicator, as well as the ODBC (Open Deity-Base Converter) standard, used in a supernaturally-high-availability cloistering add-on. Also, to help fulfill the proselytizing requirements of most modern organized religions, a new bulk-email package code-named "Ad-Minister" is currently under development.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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.....when you cant spell 'accurate' or 'discount', it is pretty tough for your potential clients to get that warm, fuzzy, trusting feeling. Ya dig?
There's no start menu, and this annoying blue apple up in the left corner.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
In Soviet Russia, BSD confirms it: Netcraft is dying.
What exactly is the point of running Windows on a mac? Why not just get a PC with similar specs and run Windows on the hardware it's designed for (read: everything works correctly)?