[Swordmaker]

To quote Robert Evans in the comments section at the link:

"I find it interesting that the writer keeps on pushing the old belief that Macs cost more. Has this writer ever considered the total cost of ownership? For some reason, this true cost is ignored in an effort to push Microsoft based computers. Don't confuse your readers with the facts, just keep telling them what everyone else says."

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

And, they won’t...Corporations have enough problems supporting one platform, not to mention some bastardized Unix Clone.

[Dr. Sivana]

Has this writer ever considered the total cost of ownership? For some reason, this true cost is ignored in an effort to push Microsoft based computers.

For the Enterprise, the economies of scale of being to standardize on OSes and applications dwarfs the questions of hardware stability and quality of OS on an individual node. Apple also has a huge gap between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro for the Enterprise, which tends to shy away from all-in-ones, The Mac Book Pros do fine in the Enterprise for management, often running Windows.

[moose07]

The IBM Business Applications for iObjects do actually work well.
Have been using them for the past couple of years now.
Using both Windows and iOS together does Stretch the mind a little when you are busy.
But the hybrid system works well when out and about.

[Swordmaker]

Macs in the Enterprise. . . the author of the article still harps on the fact that the initial cost of Macs is more expensive than low end PCs but doesn't seem to be aware of the concept of total cost of ownership. — PING!

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[miliantnutcase]

Macs are a nightmare use in our environment due to our Iron Port proxy. We’re also an active directory based domain which works fine but just is an extra headache in a half. 2000 PC’s, 80 Macs, and 500+ IOS devices going strong though!

[The KG9 Kid]

"... This is particularly true of infrastructure software on the server side, with which the end-user machines need to be connected, such as Active Directory."

In our enterprise, AD is a HELL HOLE... A God-forsaken HELL HOLE.

In a world where the back office is moving to Linux/Apache/Oracle in a big way, the only reason for MS Windows to even be in the mix is to serve as a life support system for MS Office using a budget-grade PC from HP/Dell that costs $346: i5 piece of crap with 4Gb RAM. Completely lame but the corporate people can do their jobs, I guess.

If you're in a Linux server environment, you're kind of silly if you keep buying PCs where you still have to have a bunch of MS Windows Server domain controllers to service them. Also, if you instead plan on a user base using Linux desktops you're equally nuts -- especially when notebooks come into play.

Better off getting the user base a bunch of Mac Minis.