Re: Macs in Enterprise news



"Alan Baker" wrote in message news:alangbaker-C8DCC5.09204530062011@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <HemdndM2zZR_tpHTnZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/29/11 12:55 AM, Alan Baker wrote:
> In article<iudli7$rsm$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> John Slade<hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6/25/2011 12:16 AM, Steve de Mena wrote:
>>> On 6/24/11 12:16 PM, -hh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> An interesting read...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=3287424&pagtype=
>>>> sa
>>>> mechandate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -hh
>>>
>>> They're counting home Macs people brought in to work as "Macs in
>>> the Enterprise"??
>>
>> If a kid does some homework on one they would call that
>> "enterprise use". OS X is not used much in the enterprise market
>> because it costs too much to run natively and the best office
>> suite for OS X is Microsoft Office. So why buy an overpriced Mac
>> when you're gonna run NS Office anyway?
>>
>> John
>
> One of my clients just hired a new senior manager to head their
> Communications and Marketing department. As a condition of his accepting
> the position, Norm insisted that he be allowed to have a Mac rather than
> the standard Windows PC that would have otherwise been supplied to him.

Must be a small company for an employee to dictate what workstation
he'll use.

Steve

12 stores, annual sales of a few hundred million...

...is that small?

WOW!! That was phenomenal growth from what you posted a month ago.

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'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
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on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

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