IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs

geoffrobinson writes "Roughly Drafted has obtained internal IBM documents detailing the results of a small pilot program for internal use of Macs. Positive and negative results were detailed, but overall most participants were happy with their Mac experience. The pilot will be expanded this year. One advantage cited: less reliance on Windows. So it seems a mix of Macs, PCs, and Linux boxes are in IBM's future. Given the history between IBM and Microsoft, this is quite interesting."

1984...

[Anonymous Coward]

So, does this mean that Apple is now Big Brother?

For Internal Application Only

[Doc Ruby]

I know Apple makes little "nano" iPods, but is it shipping actual Macintoshes small enough to be "used internally"? Byte-sized, even?

(*rimshot* - I'm here all weekend, folks - try the veal)

Re:For Internal Application Only

[MightyYar]

Little known fact:

The goatse guy actually started his career after he tried to use one of the original Mac portables internally.

Re:Can you blame them?

[eobanb]

Especially that bug where capital Zs are mysteriously injected in things you type.

Re:Why wouldn't an engineer want a Mac?

[bittmann]

We have a whole building of Macs here using Active Directory. I won't say it's trouble-free, but it works fairly well.

We have a whole building full of Windows XP machines here using Active Directory. I won't say it's trouble-free, but...never mind.

IBM and Apple, whodathunk it (PPC)

[starglider29a]

Yeah, it's not like IBM ever made processors for a Mac [com.com]... oh, wait...

What is more surprising is that they do this after Apple threw them over for Intel chips. Maybe it's one of those things where you get along better with yer Ex after the divorce than before.

To appropriate "Married with Children":
Peg: Would you rather have sex with A) Your wife...
Al: B!

where "your wife" = small values of Windows.

Re:This is not really new

[db32]

"I was friends with a girl". Clearly this story is fabricated.

Re:This is not really new

[lena_10326]

"I was friends with a girl". Clearly this story is fabricated.

Actually, it's quite plausible. Nerds tend to hear "let's just be friends" quite frequently.

Great!

[Blakey Rat]

Now they should start a pilot program to reduce the Lotus Notes-related suicide rate. Perhaps a bottle of vicodin gets delivered to your desk every time the app starts up...

Re:Why wouldn't an engineer want a Mac?

[Jesus_666]

We have a bunch of DOS computers and each of them has a directory called ACTIVE. Works like a charm.