Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:33 UTC, submitted by Hakime
As further evidence of the growing interest in Macs among enterprise customers, IBM's Research Information Services launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform. The study has already found an enthusiastic response from participants and is helping to drive Mac support for IBM's business applications.
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99% of people don't care about propriatary platforms or vendor lock-in.
You only care about the propriatary nature of an app if you are writing software that needs to interact with it, to end users, its the interoperability that matters. You only care about vendor lock-in if you need to swap out one of the bits on your stack semi-regularily. If that isn't a requirement, all end users care about is integration of applications within the stack they use. Not only that, but speaking as someone who worked in the J2EE/Orion/Linux/Oracle world for 5 years, even when a stack is supposedly built on "open standards", in reality, any non trivial application is still going to get locked in, as you will need to use more advanced features of your various products that are not rarely covered by standards made for compatiblity.
It depends on your requirements, and your skillset. In this case, what drove the project was user skillset being on another platform, and the requirements of said users being able to be filled on osx (the lack of visio and netmeeting turned out to not be deal breakers.)