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To: bentway who wrote (44144)	4/14/2005 5:30:07 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 213182

theres no growth in the corporate sector anymore though. The real growth which is yet to be realized is in multimedia PC/TVs for the home. Apple has a chance there I would think.

To: bentway who wrote (44144)	4/14/2005 7:23:09 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213182

Apple will always be a fringe computer player unless they can get on the corporate desktop. I absolutely agree and that's a tough nut to crack. What efforts are they making toward that end? The new operating system, OSX 10.4, or Tiger is supposed to be particularly compatible with Windows-based networks. My PowerBook integrates quite well into a Windows network already with OS 10.3. I am able to sit at my customer's premises, open my PowerBook, select Apple>Location>[Customer site name which was set-up previously], and I am connected to their 802.11g system. I can set up easily to use their networked printers. I don't hook-up to their servers, but it's possible to do. I guess these hook-ups will be even easier with Tiger. Quite a few of my customer's employees have switched to Macs - so there's hope for more switchers there. Apple has a very good set of server equipment- Xserves and Xserve RAID storage systems - so they can get inroads into the IT side of companies. The biggest obstacles to getting Macs back into the enterprise are the companies' CIOs, who don't know Macs and are afraid of them, and special enterprise software written to run only on Windows boxes. I think Apple needs a good sales force to go after big customers buy selling to the CIOs - I haven't heard much about this, although a month ago I was at my customer's site and Apple was there briefing a good sized crowd about the upcoming Tiger. The CIO was there. As far as running well with Windows enterprise software, Panther can use Entourage to interface to Microsoft Exchange. I imagine OS 10.4 will address even more MS/Mac interfaces.