Just a personal observation on Apple's chances
in corporate and government workspaces:
I am a Federal government employee, and
while we do have a small number of older
Macs, our spaces are inhabited by a large number
of Dells and Sun workstations.
However, the emergence of OSX does change
things. Before, with OS 9, we had a 0% chance
of buying new Macs. For our purposes, an OSX
box is a truly viable alternative to a Sun system,
especially given the fact we could run MS Office
on it. So, even though the IT mafia still looks
down on Apple systems, our chance of getting
new Mac systems has now risen to about 5%.
Not remarkable, perhaps, but better than what it
had been.
Lambo |
