Business Week has posted a brief item about the success of the Mac in the corporate world. A lot of older IT mangers still put the Mac in the ghetto when it comes to desktop systems and enterprise servers. But an independent study shows it’s the rare corporation that doesn’t have a Mac working somewhere.
Four of five companies are now using a Mac, and more than two thirds said they’ll allow employees to use a Mac as an enterprise desktop client in the coming year. That’s a number which has doubled from a prior survey by Information Technology Intelligence Corp.
The Mac is a Unix system, after all, when you tunnel under the elegant interface which coats OS X. Corporations running some of the biggest enterprises in the world are not shy about deploying Unix. Apple hasn’t been aggressive about placing its X Server in companies, at least not with the ardor of HP or IBM Unix solutions. But unlike those vendors, Apple doesn’t have an “industry standard” environment to siphon off its enterprise sales. Hewlett-Packard and IBM can fall back on Windows, or Linux, when their Unix products flag in the future.
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