Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Dec 2006 21:24 UTC
OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner. In a report published by Gartner this week titled Enterprise Mac Clients Remain Limited, but Apple's Appeal is Growing, analysts Michael Silver, Neil MacDonald, Ray Wagner and Brian Prentice, said that administrators will most likely have to prepare for more Mac systems in their environment even though OS X is "not a suitable enterprise wide platform". Ars weighs in on the issue as well.
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2006-08-09
Today, people buy a PC. The only thing they ask is how much memory or GHz it got. The question of what OS it runs never gets asked. People are not even aware of the concept that you could run something other than windows.
Yes, but the case here is actually workstations running Unix-like systems, that supposedly face Apple/OS X competition.
Of course workstations may be desktops, but usually the computer business distinguishes the idea of a "workstation" (high end, SCSI, Xeon/Opteron, multi core, well.. heavy stuff) from a simple "desktop" (often still running Win2k on an overloaded PII).
I do hope that the people working with the former machines have some kind of an idea of what operating system is running on it.