Corporate inroads for Mac?

[krissel]

Some analysts say no. Then again they've been wrong before.

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/07/07.7.shtml

This was interesting , if true:

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Apple vice-president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller told him that the company would "absolutely not" include virtualization similar to Parallels in the next version of Mac OS X. "The R&D would be prohibitive and we're not going to do it. Our solution is dual boot," Mr. Schiller told the analyst.

Maybe not in Leopard but maybe Lynx? Or Cougar?

Or maybe they'll just buy Parallels and incorporate it.

[mastercheif]

Macs wont make it in the coperate world because they are too expensive.

[kelly]

You know it's not that simple.

Yes you can buy a 100 Crappy low end PCs cheaper.

Just enough to run Excel.

And the IT Overhead will kill you.

But then there's a lot of IT Jobs depending on that.

If people honestly factor in TCO macs can look pretty good.

http://www.networkworld.com/best/2006/0227...tau.html?page=1

IMO. They will make some gains.

A few tens or hundreds of thousands of machines.

[sandbox]

I see some gains but not many as it stands, as long as a reboot is necessary. Friends in the newspaper business have been experimenting with the option lately, needing windows billing platform and Mac for InDesign. Having 40 computers when 25 would do is intriguing, but being in the wrong platform when you need the other is a frustration that will not be overcome easily. If Apple's new design can maintain their security, I can see companies dealing in secure files finding the concept and product usable.