Linked by David Adams on Wed 16th Apr 2008 15:33 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Apple 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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RE: But why?
by sbergman27 on Wed 16th Apr 2008 18:06 UTC in reply to "But why?"
sbergman27
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A heterogeneous closed source landscape is still better than a monopoly-dominated one. Competition is good regardless of the development model and licensing. Furthermore, open source tends to have different strengths and weaknesses than closed source. Thus it, too, benefits from having healthy closed source competition.

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