“The big problem with Apple in the enterprise has been Exchange support, particularly as it relates to calendaring and scheduling. With Snow Leopard and the now seemingly adequate Mobile Me, Apple will have that support. So I’m wondering whether we’ll see a significant influx in the enterprise market as a result,” Enderle writes.
“I think a successful product moving against an entrenched technology, like mainframes and mid-range computers in the past, or Windows XP in the present, would need to embrace the user but not create problems that would cause IT to try to block it. Snow Leopard isn’t designed to embrace IT; it is designed to prevent IT from blocking it,” Enderle writes.
“Is the enterprise ready for Snow Leopard? I’m sitting with a bunch of analysts as I write this and those that were at the Apple developers event do think that users will begin bringing Apple products into the enterprise in large numbers when Snow Leopard is released. Given that many of these users will be spending their own money to do this and that user-purchased hardware frees up capital budgets for other things, maybe IT’s best path (possibly only path) is to support the move,” Enderle writes.
“I think we are in the forefront of an adjustment where users take back some power and begin to define their solutions again. Changes like this seldom benefit the entrenched vendor, and Apple appears unusually well positioned to take advantage of the situation,” Enderle writes.
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