Apple makes inroads on corporate desktops
Category: Apple/Mac OS...
Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 at 07:49 PM [GMT-6]

According to this report from Macworld, Jupiter Research has just released a report showing that Apple's OS X is increasingly showing up on employee desktop's in some of the world's largest corporations:

The report found that 17 percent of businesses with 250 employees or more were running Mac OS X on their desktop computers. Twenty-one percent of businesses that had 10,000 or more employees used Mac OS X on their desktop.

Mac OS X Server is also doing well with businesses. Nine percent of companies with 250 employees or more used Mac OS X Server, while 14 percent of companies with 10,000 employees or more used Apple’s Server software.

Further, according to the article, "Microsoft’s Windows Server operating system saw a marginal decrease in installed base this year..."

This is sort of deja vu all over again, as my first encounter with a GUI on a desktop machine was at ARCO in 1986 when we got our first set of Apple SEs. Apple was the platform of choice for the company for several years, until some bad decisions by both Apple and Corporate IT forced a switch to Windows. I was always fascinated by the fact that the last corporate Mac holdout was also the company's biggest moneymaker: the Alaskan production unit. But by the time I left the industry, Macs were nowhere to be found in oil company offices, unless they were tucked away in executive suites.

Perhaps the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction.

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Perhaps with the switch the Intel chips, the price of the Apple boxes will go down, and Apple will rule the known world on both portable music devices and computers. :D

My next computer might be a Mac.

Posted by: Stephen at July 29, 2005 03:45 PM

My next computer might be a Mac.

OK, I'm holding you to that! ;-)

Posted by: Eric at July 29, 2005 04:31 PM
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