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

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