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 protagonist on Wed 16th Apr 2008 19:47 UTC in reply to "But why?"
protagonist
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I still fail to see how buying a Mac locks you into Apple. It is my understanding you can run pretty much any x86 OS out there. It is also possible to install and run many of the thousands of UNIX programs out there. Not to mention it has been my experience that the equivalent software between Windows and Macs is usually cheaper on the Mac side.

The only real downside of buying a Mac seems to be cost. And I would bet IBM can get them cheaper than you or I can. :-)

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