Why Consumer Macs Are Enterprise-Worthy

cyberkahn tips us to an article in Computerworld that makes the case for Apple's consumer machines moving into corporations. (The article dismisses Linux desktops in the enterprise in a single bullet item.) With the press that Vista has been getting, is Apple moving into a perfect storm? Quoting: "There is no comparison between Apple's 'consumer' machines and the consumer lines of its competitors. All of Apple's machines are ready to move into the enterprise, depending on the job at hand. The company's simple and elegant product line, which is also highly customizable, will be Apple's entree to the business market — if IT decision-makers can get over their prejudice against equipment that's traditionally been aimed at consumers."

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Re:Who wrote this crap?

[be-fan]

All the ones you mentioned (ext, reiser) are Linux-specific. XFS and JFS aren't, but they are very rarely used. No distro ships either as the default FS. And yes, you can mount ext filesystems on Windows, but then again you can mount HFS+ on Linux and Windows, and NTFS in Linux and OS X. However, despite this capability, these OSs still all use their native filesystems as their primary ones. OS X is really no different than Linux or Windows in that regard.