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Posted on 06/27/2008 10:37:44 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Enterprises love the Mac's reliability, rely on virtualization, reports Yankee Group
June 26, 2008 (Computerworld) Nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the percentage that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago, a research firm said today.
"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."
In early 2006, when DiDio last polled corporate IT professionals on Mac deployment, 47% said that they had Apple Inc. hardware in their environments.
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. "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. "This isn't Mickey Mouse; it's not just onesies and twosies anymore," DiDio said. "Apple's graduated into the big league."
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No way. No serious business uses a Mac. Those businesses must all be run by hippies.
And how much of this shift could be attributed to the Windos Vista fiasco? The older Windows XP actually was somewhat more reliable.
There ARE other operating systems, you know. It is just that the Apple and Mac OS are totally integrated, and the Windows system is grafted onto a sometimes shaky substrate PC architecture.
So what. This article is misleading. 80 percent of businesses have Mac somewhere in house and they portray it as if 80 percent are dedicated to Macs. I know we have some Macs in house...somewhere. But we dont use them for serious work and I have yet to see a PC104 stack with a Mac OS on it. Most of the time it’s Linux or in a rare case a Windows embedded system.
I know out here organizations that perceive a Linux roll out to require too much technical savvy are looking seriously at Apple, perceiving it to be far and away better from a security perspective. Most of these folks are using a mix of MS products and none have plans to even consider Vista. Whatever windows7 is supposed to be next year, it had better be spectacular or else MS may find themselves with competition again....imho
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I saw it coming years ago. In the usual Democrat way, Apple infiltrated the schools and conditioned kids from youth to depend on them. It is no wonder that when these Apple students reach working age they influence business to aquire systems they are most comfortible with.
I imagine that most businesses have not transitioned to Vista yet. The mega-telecommunications corporation that I work for has not.
I use windows XP at home. If vista is not seriously fixed soon, I'll just make the switch to mac at home as well, and dual boot the machine to run windows XP so I can still use all of my current codes and commercial software, but only purchase new software for the mac OS.
Off sarcasm.
An awful lot of oil patch is running on Win XP, and there are even some Win 2000 and Win98SE machines out there still working away.
Maybe 8 out of 10 subscribers to Mac World have a Mac. I doubt otherwise.
I call BS. A toy for west coast metrosexuals. Steve Jobs must die...
In the mean time the money is rolling in, but the mobo's are harder and harder to find.
Fine dust and vibration (standing waves in your coffee cup) are the real killers where I work. I use a six pistol aluminum case from Sportsman's Guide for a transport case--just cut out the foam to fit the laptop--about $50 and works great.
I also use those $10 Walmart keyboards and go through one every 6 months or so, which saves the keyboard on the laptop.
Every environment/application is different, though.
Hard Drives are my biggest nemises and getting a machine ready after failure is a time problem. I recently bought a hard drive duplicator for 800 bucks and can hopefully get all the unique systems copied before they crash again.
Good luck to ya!
""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."
Looks as if it might be a valid statistical sample.
Here's one large business that knows superior capabilities and used a MacBook Pro for it's President's presentation:
It could, possibly, be running Windows Vista... but I doubt it.
I had to smile at "unique systems".
My tagline says it all.
Ha Ha! 10+ just to handle it. :^)
Are you out on the Gulf or something like that?
8 of 10 fashion businesses use MACs.
No, I work onshore, mostly in Montana and North Dakota lately.
I did not see that either stated or implied in the article. The statement is, that, according to a survey of 700 IT and mid-level management people, 80% of enterprise level businesses had Macs in their companies compared to just 47% two years ago. Nowhere does the article state or imply that any of them "are dedicated to Macs.' in fact, it explicitly states the opposite.
Many of these businesses ARE indeed using their Macs for serious work. OSX Macs are, after all, fully certified UNIX™ computers.
I looked at your home-page after that post and understood much better. Excellent page BTW.
What did Steve Jobs ever do to you?
Looks like you may have done a wee bit of work in the boonies, too.
It can be a challenge to deliver information to people who work near sidewalks as if you were too, when you are far from where the pavement ends.
At least it isn't boring. (Altough sometimes, boredom is a nice change.)
Please, outside of using Macs in elementary school I never saw another Mac in school until college. Even then it was only in the Journalism department. Every other place was PCs because those were plentiful and cheaper.
People are going to Macs for other reasons. I think you would have to search pretty hard for a Mac user who wasn’t capable on a Windows machine.
So, Apple Computer Co.'s, machiavellian marketing plot of donating one Apple II to every school in California 30 years ago has only now come to fruition? It's really amazing how a mere 9000 Apple computers, given away in 1978, could sway so many companies 30 years later in 2008. My what foresight... what planning... what vision...
Uh, why didn't it work in the 1980s and 1990s, when those mind-washed kids had graduated from school and were now the driving force behind the computerization of the enterprise market and chose to standardize on Microsoft run PCs?
He’s HALF SYRIAN! ;-)
We have stations in your area (Minot) but I never asked for that one.
Assuming you are referring to Mac computers and not Media Access Controller, you are probably right... 8 of 10 fashion businesses use Macs along with 8 if 10 non-fashion businesses.
It isn't so bad in the summer, between say the second week of June and the third week of August you almost never need a heavy coat or Mickey Mouse boots...
Good chatting, but I'm due for a nap.
So he is! His birth father abandoned his unwed birth mother (until years later when they got back together and married) and she gave him up for adoption as an infant.
He was raised by a working class, blue collar American family. So what does the nationality of his biological father have to do with your animus toward Steve Jobs?
Just trying to needle the Jobs-worshippers on this site. I have nothing personal against Steve or Woz.
I am an admirer of Steve Jobs' accomplishments. I do not worship him. Nor, do I believe, do any other Freepers worship him. I disagree with some of his politics but I wholeheartedly agree with his business acumen and vision. I'd guess that most Apple users have no idea who he is.
In the mean time the money is rolling in, but the mobo's are harder and harder to find.
For what it's worth, if you don't need specific hardware that the apps expect to find, meaning that you're stuck with software that requires DOS or Win9x to run, I've had remarkable luck with VMWare. Plus, it's nice being able to run 6 or 7 of these batch processing systems on one piece of hardware.
Mark
You’re right of course....every business has one or two holdouts that MacNuts that have enought clout to flout the IT policy...doesn’t mean the rest of the organization swings that way...this ‘survey’ is BS even though I think MS is way over-rated.
We have a few Macs in the office that people personally bought and use. Does that qualify us as a Mac company? I have a suspect that is how the numbers are so high.
Hadn’t seen that. Funny.
It says 80 percent of business are using Macs. I did not take it to mean that 80 percent of businesses were only Mac.
And there is no reason to think the survey question has changed in two years so they are comparing apples to apples (pun works well) and it indicates a significant trend. Also, note the survey says that two years ago most business answering yes were like your shop with some Mac hidden away in the art department. Now, they are saying they are a visible and significant part of the infrastructure.
That was an 80s thing. The kids today making the switch were almost all taught MSFT PC in their gub indoctrination centers.
Our company has about 400 employees. The graphic design, web development, and printing staff have been using them since the early 90’s. The IT staff isn’t terribly pleased about them, but the Macs have proven that they can co-exist peacefully and productively beside their PC cousins, so we’re tolerated. Mac users had to do their own service and support for a long time, but it is something a muggle can do, since the Macs simply don’t break down with nearly the same frequency that PCs do.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE APPLE BEHIND THE PLACARD!!!
I AM THE GREAT...and...POWERFUL...er...Microsoft.
;-) :-D
Possibly true, but we can’t trust the source. If she has a personal feeling on a subject you can basically forget any hope of honest reporting from her.
Funny, Apple owned the schools in the years preceding the almost complete Microsoft dominance of the business world.
Wow. For somne reason this article really called out the fanatical windows bigots in droves.
I used to do field service computer work for Unisys and have been to hundreds of companies and offices.
I have never seen a Mac in any one of them.
That was for 10 years ending back in 2006.
Maybe 80% of those companies went out and bought Apple in the last 2 years but i really doubt it.
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