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Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?

Posted by kdawson on from the awareness-gap dept.

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."

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  1. why not? by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?

    Why not? They're already penetrating consumers.

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    1. Re:why not? by mrbluze · · Score: 4, Funny

      But consumers don't wear chastity belts, are much looser and would easily accommodate an apple. Much harder to penetrate a corporation - have to try it with a thin client or something like that - an apple would just get crushed.

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  2. Re:Not the network admins call by jcr · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

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  3. They need to break into some new markets ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:Paradigm-shift. by MightyYar · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's no start menu, and this annoying blue apple up in the left corner.

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  6. If you're going to get like that... by Rix · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, BSD confirms it: Netcraft is dying.