Macs Now Found in 8 of 10 Businesses
Now, this is what I’m talking about.
Of course this isn’t anything that surprising from the consulting that I’m doing. The Mac is because of very viable solution. It was before, or at least since 2000, but now, the popularity is making being a Mac user less objectionable. And the tools available on the Mac can really help businesses to increase productivity, which saves money, which fattens up that bottom line.
Macs Now Found in 8 of 10 Businesses: “
A new survey conducted by Yankee Group Research Inc. of more than 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives revealed that nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house. This number is up from the last survey in 2006 which indicated that 47% of businesses had in-house Macs.
Two interesting details of this survey are:
- 21% of the firms surveyed reported having delpoyed more than 50 Macs (some ranged into the thousands)
- 28% of the firms reported running Windows in a virtual machine on the Macs
Clearly, virtualization software has helped catalyze this trend towards Mac delpoyment. The two leaders in virtualization software are VMware Inc. (their product is Fusion) and Parallels.
In business and in education, there is an increasing trend towards making the Mac the platform of choice. The one unfortunate side-effect from this trend may be the increased (although minimal) exposure of the Mac OS to hackers’ efforts.
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(Via Mac-Sage.)
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