Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?

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."

why not?

[User 956]

Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation?

Why not? They're already penetrating consumers.

Re:why not?

[Brunellus]

Steve's potency seems never to have been in doubt.

Re:Yes and Maybe No

[mgabrys_sf]

Ditto. I'm curious about those costs too because I've been multi-platform for so long I can't even relate to the idea of training people to learn how to click on a brushed metal window instead of a Microsoft one. I know that Start Button / Apple menu is going to cause wholesale panic around the company cafeteria.

Corporate riot ensues, Wall Street collapses, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!

Just explaining the lack of a BSD is going to be comedy gold baby! And the OSX wirly rainbow thingie is also sure to be a barn-burner. Start those camcorders for YouTube, and kick back and enjoy the fun.

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They need to break into some new markets ...

[ScrewMaster]

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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Re:why not?

[mrbluze]

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.

Yeah, but nobody can tell.....

[LibertineR]

.....when you cant spell 'accurate' or 'discount', it is pretty tough for your potential clients to get that warm, fuzzy, trusting feeling. Ya dig?

Re:Paradigm-shift.

[MightyYar]

There's no start menu, and this annoying blue apple up in the left corner.

If you're going to get like that...

[Rix]

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

Re:Are you sure?

[Korin43]

What exactly is the point of running Windows on a mac? Why not just get a PC with similar specs and run Windows on the hardware it's designed for (read: everything works correctly)?