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Corporate users looking to run Windows applications on Macs have a new option.
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Corporate users looking to run Windows applications on Macs have a new option.
Why would any corporation use Macs ?
They all use HP/Lenovo desktops and laptops.
They do. The company I work for has a design studio running Macs.
yep, same as ours. 1000 windows machines and 9 macs. lol
Well i work for a real company, and we have over 2500 PCs and not a single mac! :D
Several of my recent large corporate customers have a bunch of Macs. Sure they may be reasonably small number compared to Windows and Linux on the desktop, but there is clearly a market otherwise I guess they wouldn't have released the product.
Because some people prefer them even if that equals to running Parallels for Windows apps and Mac for everything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by OilSheikh
We have around 100 Macs and 2500 Windows boxes... Not very even but hey its a start.
Most companies must see a simple sum here.
Windows PC = cheaper for better hardware and more compatible.
Mac = Overpriced for lessor hardware and less compatible.
As a business I know which I would buy.
Not too mention Parallels software is really ****.
Virtuozzo for instance is the biggest turd of a failure to provide virtulisation I've ever had the miss fortune to have to use.
It fragments memory so swiftly and quickly, running an older C app that was using data in real time managed to kill the host every few hours, without fail. Despite patches, upgrades etc.
Run it under VMWare flawless, no issues, uptime for months, infact it was only updates that we wrote which took it down.
A joke in the enterprise, and the decision to use it in a fairly small (300 people) firm, it cost one fellow his job.
It's not quite as simple as that though. It all comes down to use case. For example if you're managing a number of Linux hosts, OSX is simply better to use than Windows as it comes with a bunch of tools built in - better scripting etc. Before the pedants jump in, I realise that Windows has Powershell etc, but if you're managing UNIX hosts, you're more likely to know PERL / shell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Percy1983
In the last place I worked, having a Macbook Pro was seen as a 'perk' over a Dell running Linux by the sysadmin team. IMO regardless of the OS, they are built better and look nicer.