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    News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    Corporate users looking to run Windows applications on Macs have a new option.
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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    Why would any corporation use Macs ?

    They all use HP/Lenovo desktops and laptops.

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    They do. The company I work for has a design studio running Macs.

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    yep, same as ours. 1000 windows machines and 9 macs. lol

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    Well i work for a real company, and we have over 2500 PCs and not a single mac!

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    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.

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    Why would any corporation use Macs ?
    Because some people prefer them even if that equals to running Parallels for Windows apps and Mac for everything else.



    We have around 100 Macs and 2500 Windows boxes... Not very even but hey its a start.
    Last edited by spoon_; 13-07-2011 at 08:16 PM.

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    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.

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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    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.
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    Re: News - Parallels Desktop 6 gets enterprise edition

    Quote Originally Posted by Percy1983 View Post
    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.
    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.

    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.

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