“If yours is like most IT departments, you probably aren’t deploying Macintosh systems in large numbers. And if you’re deploying them at all, you’re doing so in niche spaces such as graphic arts, multimedia and publishing,” writes Michael Gartenberg for ComputerWorld.
Gartenberg continues, “But the truth is that Mac OS has changed quite a bit in the past few years, and today’s Apple systems offer a reasonable alternative to Wintel systems for many mainstream uses and are often best-of-breed tools for tasks such as desktop publishing, multimedia and other content creation. OS X, code-named Jaguar, and the recently announced successor called Panther are rock-solid Unix at the core, with Apple’s elegant user interface on top. But if you plan on deploying them, you’ll need to overcome your preconceptions regarding three myths about the Mac that still linger.”
Gartenberg then shatters the myths, “Macs are more expensive than Wintel PC’s,” “There is no software for the Mac,” and “Macs architecture is proprietary and incompatible with Wintel.”
“Most IT departments lament the lack of choice among desktop operating systems. The truth is that there are choices out there, and viable ones at that. IT departments that can overcome their traditional prejudices against Apple may well discover that there’s a new PowerBook or G5 in their future, and once they do, they may never go back to Windows,” writes Gartenberg.
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