Apple's MacOS X is making inroads in the business world, according to a report by market research firm Jupiter Research, the report covers desktop and server OS usage in medium to large sized businesses.
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Member since:2005-07-06
But at the same time, it can be simply be maninpulated via bias; if people took the research with a few truck loads of salt, then sure, but far too many PHBs would rather take the lazy option, pay the $500 or what ever to get access to the paper, then declare that they 'know the future' and all they had to do was swipe their EFTPOS card and charge $500 to it.
Regarding this research; who is it actually benefiting? are we gong to suddenly see the drones from the top floor going, "oooh, shiny Mac now popular, me must jump on bandwagon before me gets lost" - if they're basing their purchasing decisions on what is vogue, hip or in for that particular quarter, then god help them; because quite frankly, if they really want to make a decent decision, they could easily make a small deployment via an arrrangement by Apple, and worth through any problems on a miniture scale, once the trial period ends, then compare it to the alternative of the status quo - upgrade hardware and throw the latest and greatest Windows/Office solution on them.
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2005-07-06
Why do I slam research data? because according to some researchers, currently right now Itanium should have grown to sales of $10billion, SUN and all the old RISC based vendors should either be backrupted or moving to Itanium - the reality is, however, what their so-called research shows, and what happens in reality are two diametrically opposing things.
I think you meant to say forecasts. Research does have beneficial purposes when the information is gathered and interpreted properly.