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Re: Tuesday, November 7, 2001
I want to expand upon Dori's reply. Doc asks whether OS X is makes Apple a viable enterprise computing contender. I believe it can, especially in those businesses that have strong UNIX based infrastructures or run lots of UNIX applications. Add Microsoft Office to this mix and you have, as implied, a very viable corporate desktop alternative to W2K or WXP. But, Apple still has a problem in the enterprise; hardware. There are two issues here. Paucity of models suitable for office desktops (meaning Macs are too cool for most companies) and single source. With no one else making computers that run OS X, many companies are uncomfortable buying. The single source issue also leads to questions of performance, which are often the main driver in UNIX workstation purchases. Large workstation orders often hinge upon a few benchmark advantages, with whole installations being switched to different vendors if a competing brand is faster or offers some other performance benefit. Apple has a long way to go to compete in the performance arena, their marketing aside. Perhaps, as so many have suggested in the past, a future version of OS X for Intel, perhaps Itanium or a successor chip, would resolve this issue. OTOH, Jobs is no fool. If significant numbers of OS X Macs start backdooring into enterprises, there would be business Macs within six months. Barry Cohen Progressive Strategies There are responses to this message:
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