“Enterprises and schools are only deploying iPads [vs. other tablets modeled on iPad] widely today,” Eric Lai writes for Sybase. “Why is this important? Enterprises plan their budgets and upgrade cycles years in advance (with hardware, that is typically 3-5 years).”
“None of the large organizations that are deploying iPads today are making that decision capriciously,” Lai writes. “Anyone who has deployed iPads to hundreds or thousands of employees and has started to use real enterprise apps is basically committed to expanding that usage for the medium term, and very likely the long-term.”
Lai writes, “Which brings me to the iPad deployment list that I co-maintain with Jim Siegl. The list just won’t stop growing. There are now 458 organizations deploying nearly 122,000 iPads (and as I’ve repeatedly noted, this is only a list of public deployments, meaning it is a HU-UGE undercount). That is 25% growth in the number of organizations in just three months.”
The Top 5 of the Top 50:
1. Korea Telecom, 30,000 iPads
2. Long Island University, 6,000 iPads
3. KLA-Tencor, 5,400 iPads
4. Medtronic, 5,000 iPads
5. SAP AG, 5,000 iPads
Full list here.
Amazing.
Korea Telecom’s entry is surprising — they did not want to wait for Samsung’s copy of iPad 2.
It may be because KT, the #2 carrier in Korea, is allied with Apple, as it launched the iPhone in Korea, while SK Telecom, the #1 carrier in Korea, is allied with Samsung.
Oooooh that has GOT to sting huh? The Korean people are known to be very Nationalistic, but only so far…
They need only remind themselves that there’s a lot of Korean-made content in the iPad.
I thought that we ugly Americans were the most nationalistic. We are typically considered to the most [insert slur here] in the world.
[buttholetastic?]
KT brought ipads for resell. They are the largest buyers and seller of Samsung devices.
http://www.careace.net/2010/06/29/south-korea-telecom-sells-100000-samsung-galaxy-s/
The leading company has been left off the list: Apple. They’ve deployed thousands in their own retail stores and corporate offices.