“‘Then, we were talking about onesies and twosies,’ said Laura DiDio, a research fellow at Yankee Group Research Inc. who conducted a survey of more than 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives. ‘Now the number of actual users is very significant. A number of the businesses said that they had 50 or 100 or even several thousand Macs deployed,'” Keizer reports.
“In early 2006, when DiDio last polled corporate IT professionals on Mac deployment, 47% said that they had Apple Inc. hardware in their environments,” Keizer reports.
“DiDio was impressed with the growth of Macs in business, considering that Apple Inc. has put little to no official effort into that part of the market,” Keizer reports. “‘This isn’t a tidal wave, but it’s certainly a sustained trend,’ she said. ‘Apple has a beachhead in business. Where it once had just 1-to-2% market share in corporate, now they’re up to 8-to-10%,’ DiDio added. Twenty-one percent of the firms surveyed reported that they had deployed more than 50 Macs.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ampar” for the heads up.]
1st is not always what it’s cracked up to be
But if I am, and if Mac gets there too
Far Out
BC
It just keeps getting better. Enjoy your retirement Bill. You left the perfect guy in charge of the company you started.
… and 2 in 10 businesses still don’t get it yet.
@Ampar:
You’re the reason why I keep coming back to this site. You humor and quick reparte is bar none. You are da bomb.
Thanks, silverwarloc.
Speaking of humor, today’s Joy of Tech is better than usual.
See Bill Gates lurch offstage as his Alien Parasite Twin unexpectedly bursts from his abdomen and terrifies the audience:
http://apnews.myway.com/image/20080626/Microsoft_Gates.sff_NYBZ110_20080626143701.html
First a beachhead then we’ll drive the Nazi war machine from the face of this good planet. Ballmer in Hitler outfit telling his last few remaining Generals We’ll beat the decadent Google scum and the Yahoo Board that prevented my take over plans, shall be made to pay with the big Ballmer’s fist.
Go Apple !
and the beat goes on . . .
Our business is 100% Mac.
I’ve often said if I had to choose between corporate accounts and small business accounts… I would choose the latter cause there a whole lot more and it looks as if Apple is doing the same.
Take the small business business when ever you can and in time the corporate world will follow as they generally do.
@Ampar
Today’s Joy of Tech may be better than normal, but that still means it’s rubbish.
my SCHOOL is 100% Mac. Its awesome, we can actually use the computers. We have the OS X Server, and each of the 300+ students in the school have their own user account. Its great! Last year, we had a bunch of crappy Dells in the “other room” that no one wanted to use, everyone tried getting into the room with the Macs, and if you were too late, you had to use the Dells… *shudders*.
I should also add that the computer lab has about 40 Mac Minis, and each of the teachers has a MacBook, and the system admin has a MacBook Pro.
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Thanks, silverwarloc.
Speaking of humor, today’s Joy of Tech is better than usual.”
It’s nice that BG is trying to buy his way into heaven, but he deserved the pie in the face.
On the other hand, KISS Rules!!!!!!!