ars technica:Analysis: Is Apple about to have an enterprise moment?

December 16 2008

Very in line with some of the work we have been doing with Apple lately...

Apple now has Intel Inside. A larger number of business-oriented apps like Microsoft Office and Lotus Notes now run on Mac OS X, and the increasing number of web applications make the operating system an afterthought for many users. The iPhone is not only the sexiest smartphone around, it's one of the most popular. Most importantly, Macs can do Windows, either through Boot Camp or virtualization. So times have definitely changed, but have they changed enough to get Apple anything more than a toehold into the enterprise?  

Some new data from the Information Technology Intelligence Corp. shows that all of these factors have had an impact on Apple's enterprise uptake. ITIC surveyed 700 IT managers and executives and discovered that 80 percent of the respondents had Macs in their corporate environment. Half of those taking the survey said they were ramping up their iPhone integration over and against the popular BlackBerry. And around 30 percent of them are running Windows on their Macs via virtualization products such as VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop.
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Ed Brill | Westborough, MA USA Category:  Machead  Add/View Comments [7]

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  1. 1  Carlos  | 12/17/2008 12:29:03 AM

    So Steve won't be doing the MacWorld keynote cause he will be saving himself for LS09 ? ;-)

  1. 2  Nick Hortovanyi http://blogs.toasttechnology.com.au/roller/hortovanyi | 12/17/2008 2:33:39 AM

    Ed, is IBM Lotus looking to get into the consumer market or is that IBM Lotus is working with Apple to help them enter the Enterprise market?

  1. 3  Luke  | 12/17/2008 2:53:47 AM

    I have been working with a MacBookPro with no problems for 1,5 yrs now.

    Parallels was my choice, VMWare wasn't even out to compare when I bought the MBP. Applications work smoothly, even faster than the same applications on corporate companies hw, just because I am not obliged to load lot of sw like antivirus and so on on my PC partition (I don't even configure the Windows VM to go to the Internet. I use my Mac to surf.)

    Ah, btw, Notes works out perfectly. 6.5 - 7 - 8.0.2 - 8.5beta 2 all are loaded and all work faster than on Dell hw. :-)

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/17/2008 5:23:47 AM

    @2 the latter, though I point out that it's not "entering" but maybe "accelerating its presence"

  1. 5  Steven  | 12/17/2008 8:22:35 AM

    I think there was a typo.. Isn't it supposed to say 80% said they had "a" Mac in their corporate environment? ;-)

    We had 1 and it was running Notes 7, but that person is gone now.

  1. 6  Robert Harris  | 12/17/2008 8:45:11 AM

    Ed, any more information on when we'll see Notes 8.5 go gold? Can't wait to have a gold Notes 8.5 to roll out to my eligible Macs (Intel & Leopard are required).

  1. 7  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 12/17/2008 9:00:06 AM

    hope to have an update shortly.