“Leading IT bosses claim that despite Apple’s recent revival – largely around its consumer products – the company will continue to have little impact on corporate IT strategies,” Andy McCue reports for Silicon.com. “After coming back from near oblivion, Apple’s recent successes have been based around the iPod, new desktops and business hardware and a relatively virus-free platform.”
“We asked the silicon.com CIO Jury whether this had led them to rethink any aspect of their technology operations or if it challenged the traditionally-held notion that Apple has no place in corporate IT departments. Rob Neil, head of ICT at Ashford Borough Council, said that as far as corporate systems are concerned Apple is ‘an irrelevance,’ while Richard Yeo, CTO at easyGroup, simply stated: ‘Proprietary hardware and software, overpriced, few applications,'” McCue reports.
“Cost was an issue highlighted by other IT chiefs. Gavin Whatrup, IT director at advertising agency Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, said that while Apple’s strengths are in ‘great technology,’ graphics and design, the company needs to address supply, price and integration issues to break into the corporate mainstream. Richard Steel, head of ICT, Newham Borough Council, was more succinct. ‘[Apple is] still an expensive fashion accessory in the consumer market and niche for business,’ he said,” McCue reports. “A couple of IT bosses, including Ted Woodhouse, IT director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said the only reason there are few malware exploits for Apple software is down to a lack of market penetration.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The IT guys will be the last to fall because their job security rests largely on Wintel deficiencies. If the world’s companies used Macs running Mac OS X, the IT staffing needs would plummet and the attendant power that having large staffs bring to IT honchos would evaporate as well. They are scared, so scared, in fact, that some even feel the need to fall back to the long-ago-disproven “Security via Obscurity” myth (see related articles below). Can you believe that Ted Woodhouse guy actually has a job as an IT Director? Simply amazing.
If you think the quotes above are bad, just wait until Apple really starts eating into the Wintel market and Microsoft shareholders, media companies that depend on Microsoft, antivirus software companies, Windows-only software makers, “computer help” gurus in the media (radio, TV, magazines) who live off Windows’ mediocrity, and others begin to defend their turf. It’s going to get very, very ugly.
For our Windows-only friends who are not trapped under the thumbs of dictatorial IT morons suffering from severe cases of Stockholm Syndrome, information about smoothly adding a safe, secure, powerful, and fun Mac OS X machine to your computing arsenal can be found here.
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