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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.'"
No i didn't RTFA, but one of my biggest concerns has always been remote central management in the enterprise structure. IT can't always make "house calls" to each and every computer, there has to be ways of remotely accessing, configuring and maintaining the systems and I haven't seen much that supports OSX. Even with Linux there are tools that allow you to do that, and most all central configuration tools are Windows based.
That is going to be a big hurdle to adoption from an IT standpoint.
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"And may your days be long upon the earth."
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Yes, it is in fact just another dopey Mac commercial.
Sure we'll all run on down to the Mac store this afternoon.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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.
A key element of me picking up a new macbook pro as my main development machine was all the hardware working. The wireless card can't see any networks on channel 13! do they really think that people who buy expensive hardware never visit Europe? The wireless performance is worse than my old powerbook.
To add to the fun if you look at the Ubuntu Linux forums you will see that people with the exact same model are having very different problems installing. Ranging from processor timing issues to hangs to non-responsive keyboards. It's not enough that it's a piece of shit, it's a NON STANDARD piece of shit which is totally unacceptable for a corporate environment.
Up to this point I have had really good experiences with Apple gear (running Linux) and I don't intend to give up because of one bad machine which could be an exception, but right now I am not feeling like my money was well spent.
Beep beep.
...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?
Why should a company buy macs when they can cost $1000 dollars more then a regular pc. Also there is more expense then just the computers alone. There is the expense of buying all new liscences for the programs that have mac counter parts. Then the cost of getting custom programs redone for the mac os.
IF you think your mac is supposed to do anything more practical than looking pretty, GTFO.
That is a load if I have ever heard one.
If you only use Office and email sure no problem.
You want to do anything that OSX doesn't have integrated when you buy it or on your website you spend time crawling to find shit.
Mac is a glorified closed hardware PC with a crappy closed Source OS. If you want Freedom Use Linux hell most mac users have to port Linux apps over to get anything decent unless of course you want to listen to music or make photo albums for the kids.
I am a PC user who works in a Mac shop I spend lots of time helping the Mac users make things work as they expect them too.
The one refreshing thing I can say is I don't hear windows sucks every time they open some third party crappy written program and it crashes. So know I hear anyone know anyway i can open this up on my Mac. Such fun!!!
Granted, I didn't RTFA, but this just seems counterintuitive. I can see Macs infiltrating the graphics or marketing depts of corporations, but there are better alternatives for "real work". Can you do *real* .NET programming on a Mac? Any other development, or if you're just looking for generic office PCs (word processing, spreadsheets, email and web), why wouldn't you use Linux on commodity hardware? What does the Mac offer other than the intangible "experience" that would be hard pressed to justify to the bottom line?
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