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Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Your Enterprise Computer
Esther Schindler writes "Not just another 'why big companies should adopt Macs' article, CIO is running a piece assuming that Macs are already on the way in the door. Hi, I'm a Mac, and I'm Your Enterprise Computer offers advice to IT managers about how to integrate Apple systems into the existing IT infrastructure, and offers hints from leading Mac OS X experts on configuring those systems once they've arrived. '[A] key element in corporate Macintosh adoption is the importance of third-party software and custom solutions. They can help smooth the way for integrating Macs onto the network. While specialists say they wish third-party support were greater, the openness of the Mac makes correcting issues possible. Don't discount the lure of the well-worn path that draws and then traps your IT staff into familiar habits.'"
Will they portray the enterprise mac with the same heroin addict looking actor? I swear every time I watch one of those videos, it reminds me of trainspotting and I almost instantly go into withdrawl symptoms when it's over.
"Please, shut up. Just when I think you can't say anything more stupid, you speak again." -Archie Bunker.
...that corporate America continues to suck Microsoft dick is that when the executives get together for their cocaine and whore parties, the executives from companies that have Macs get picked on.
It's simple peer pressure amongst pampered MBA types that that never mentally matured past the sixth grade.
Mod me down, but you can feel it deep in your bowels that I am right.
Dude, so not flame-bait here. Nothing offensive is intended. I ask these questions because I don't have the answers. As I saw with my (limited) Linux experience, access control for files was limited to one user or group. To me that seems unworkable when compared to NTFS. With WIndows you can have an unlimeted number of users and groups in an ACL and 7 levels of permission. SO you can give Project Managers full control of a directory, and workers read access. Also, I am familure with root, but that is not central. You refered to it on the "system" and that is distributed. With Windows, I can put your user account into the Domain Admins group, and you are now "root" on over 4000 pc's. Plus we can give and take rights away at a very granular level. Does Linux or Mac have anyting like this?
Pulleeze! Enough with the "everything's better than the evil empire even if it doesn't work the way we want it to!" crap.. I work on a Mac every day and it's got it's niche, but use as an enterprise workstation is a pipe dream as long as Apple stays out of the business software writing business or until MS gives in and makes MS Office more Mac friendly. Ever opened a macro laden spreadsheet on a Mac that was created on a PC? Hit or miss as to whether those macros will do what they were intended to do. Have any of you actually used Entourage or dealt with font issues on a Mac? My advice is to ignore this piece of fanboi dreck and upgrade to Vista. You won't be sorry, unlike what you'll be trying to integrate Macs into a non-publishing workflow. That's just a waste of time and that's not even flamebait. It's reality.
"Error -39" apparently means "file corrupt", I discovered above. Intuitive.
Yeah, those Apple adds obviously talk about an OS that hasn't been sold for 5 years. Sure.Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck