Can the Mac make serious inroads into the enterprise/IT world?

Can the Mac make serious inroads into the enterprise/IT world?

Last week a PC Magazine analysis posed an interesting question: “Will Macs take on the enterprise?” The article says the ability of Mactel systems make them an “interesting choice in enterprise environments.” As PC Magazine points out, the traditional IT market is, for the most part, owned by Microsoft and such PC makers as HP, Dell, Toshiba, and Lenovo. However, Apple also has a solid foothold in IT, primarily in advertising, graphics, and marketing. Beyond these areas, however, Apple has had very little luck in the broader enterprise marketplace.

However, analyst Tim Bajarin, who wrote the PC Magazine analysis, said he recentlyhad an interesting discussion with an IT manager for a Fortune 500 company that is exploring the idea of purchasing Macs for mainstream enterprise deployment as well as for its graphics and advertising departments. As a result of this conversation, he began to think differently about the Mac and its potential role in the future of mainstream business.

With such virtualization products as Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop allowing Mac users to run Windows and Windows software with ease, buying Macs is making more and more sense for IT environments, Bajarin feels. Also, he points out that because Apple has made some serious headway infiltrating college campuses, often recent graduates come into companies and want to keep using their Macs.

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