“This week I had an interesting discussion with an IT manager for a Fortune 500 company that is exploring the idea of purchasing Macs for mainstream enterprise deployment as well as for its graphics and advertising departments. As a result of this conversation, I began to think differently about the Mac and its potential role in the future of mainstream business,” Tim Bajarin reports for PC Magazine.
Macs can also run Microsoft Windows
Bajarin reports, “In my talk with this IT manager, he stated that Parallels’ new software is the reason he has seriously begun considering Macs. Although he is not thinking of tossing out all of the company’s PCs, he does think that having these dual-OS Macs in his IT shop could give his users some more options. And he’s already supporting both PCs and Macs, so making the Mac an option for mainstream IT usage makes sense. When I pushed him on this, he said there is another reason: Because Apple had made some serious headway infiltrating college campuses, often recent graduates come into the company and want to keep using their Macs. Until now, they had been told no and have had to move over, begrudgingly, to the Windows platform. Though this is not a widespread issue, he told me he would like to give prospective employees the option of using a Mac or a PC.”
Bajarin writes, “Now that is a forward-thinking IT manager! …I do think that the Mac’s new ability to run Windows as well as OS X has to be viewed as a potential disruptive force within IT departments. At the very least, it should get Apple broader attention within traditional Windows-only IT operations.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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Re: “And now imagine that a premium version of Leopard will allow 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, 2 mice, and 2 users …. at the same time.”
I vote a strong yes on this; I am a classroom teacher who wants to be able to have students work together on a document, or a Keynote presentation projected on a screen, for example.
Hope someone from Apple reads this.
“premium version of Leopard”
Don’t start that, it sounds like MS BS. There is only ONE version of Tiger, Leopard, etc.
> Steve Ballmer is happy. Buy a mac and buy windows, too.
I don’t think so. Buy a PC; the Windows OS is already “bought.” Buy a Mac; the Windows OS is optional. If the customer is trying to avoid Windows Vista, it is not even a consideration.
That’s not a good thing for Microsoft. For Microsoft to succeed, there needs to be no options (monopoly).
you have to buy windows? :snicker:
i thought we were all using the same duped CD.
Google “SubEthaEdit”
Google “SubEthaEdit”
Google “SubEthaEdit”
Google “SubEthaEdit”
even Emacs does that.
“IT manager for a Fortune 500 company”
Who is the company?
Until then all we can guess is it’s probably just AN IT Manager AT a fortune 500 company not THE CTO of a Fortune 500 company.