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Macs Gaining a Bigger Role In Enterprise

Posted by kdawson on from the i-want-my-os-x dept.

rev_media tips a short article up at InfoWorld giving some numbers on the increasing Mac presence in businesses. "We're seeing more requests outside of creative services to switch to Macs from PCs," notes the operations manager for a global advertising conglomerate. They "now [support] 2,500 Macs across the US — nearly a quarter of all... US PCs." Another straw in the wind: "Security firm Kapersky Labs has already created a Mac version of its anti-virus software for release should Mac growth continue (and the Mac thus [find] itself prey to more hackers)."

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  1. Macs Gaining a Bigger Role in the Enterprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well that's only because you can run LCARS in vmware now...

    1. Re:Macs Gaining a Bigger Role in the Enterprise by Kamokazi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Really? Can it emulate the bio-neural circuitry found on the NCC-1701-E, or am I stuck with old-school isolinear circuitry emulation? (or god forbid, duotronics?)

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    2. Re:Macs Gaining a Bigger Role in the Enterprise by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are stuck in the basement.

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    3. Re:Macs Gaining a Bigger Role in the Enterprise by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 2, Funny

      Captain: Scotteeee! What... are... all... these... little files everwhere?!

      Scot: Och, they arrre Finderrr Trrribbles, Captain!

      Spock: It is illogical for the Finder to leave these little creatures everywhere. [DS_STORE screams as Spock touches it.]

      McCoy: They don't seem to like pointed-eared Vulcans with external USB storage, do they?

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    4. Re:Macs Gaining a Bigger Role in the Enterprise by Kamokazi · · Score: 2, Funny

      I prefer to call it 'the bridge'. Now shut the door, you're letting sunlight in.

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  2. Re:Macs on the Enterprise by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

  3. OSX in 2008 by Artuir · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the year of OSX on the desktop!!!!11

    *cough*

  4. Re:I call bullshit by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh come now, Mr. and Ms. Moderator. Just because zappecs isn't in a very good mood, there's no need to Trollerize him. Besides having a reasonably cogent point (the article is pretty lame and stupid), he's posting on Slashdot on a Saturday night. He's obviously a lonely guy stuck in some (perhaps figurative) basement.

    Where's the love?

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  5. you know... by luigi517 · · Score: 2, Funny

    they only work better for the same reason that its hard to drown in the kiddie pool...

  6. Re:Low starting point by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know, when they said that Macs were gaining a "bigger role in the Enterprise" I had a picture of a bunch of Macs installed on the bridge of a Federation starship. And this dialogue:

    "Fire photon torpedoes!"

    "I can't!"

    "What's wrong, number one?"

    "There's just a single mouse button! I can't right-click on the Klingon ship!"

    "Dammit! Do a command-click!"

  7. Re:More IT Jobs require Mac skills by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go on, tell us how long it takes you to copy a file.