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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2005-08-31
For everything you'll use, it will have some sort of lock-in. If it's not corporate lock-in, it will be license lock-in, group dependence lock-in et cetera.
If you look it solely and uniquely as a free-software advocate and a Linux(or what ever the OS you think everyone should you because you use it) enforcer, it's true you'll find no other advantage than the one you praise.
Using windows or OS X in corporation is two different beast.
- Free compiler
- Free tools for developer
- Rich choice of scripting language out of the box (open source, standard)
- More productive interface
- Better care for details and design (design is not only aesthetics)
- Better support of standard
- Better design hardware*
* just look at the trackpad, why just Apple offers a big, multi-touch trackpad that doesn't -require- a second mouse?
Anyway, there's many room for different player in the industry. I hope open source will be in it, but also Apple, Sun, IBM.
Apple have some drawback for corporate use, but still there's more and more people who wants their products in corporation. Did IBM sensed it and wants to offer solutions. (business opportunity)