Even though I'm a long-time Apple fanboy, I don't think Apple is going to penetrate the corporate environment very far, because they don't care about that environment.
I say this as someone who was involved in an Apple-in-the-data-center project which Apple was pushing hard and which was completely eviscerated by the switch-to-intel announcement. They didn't warn us, and frankly the entire economic rationale evaporated the day they did it.
So, no Apple in the normal corporate data center, and no Apple on the corporate desktop because they lack the central management tools that MS offers.
I can see Apple regaining lost ground in art departments and in small companies that don't use a centralized desktop management tool.
(Yes, I know about ARD - but ARD really doesn't scale well past a few dozen boxes.)
Even though I'm a long-time Apple fanboy, I don't think Apple is going to penetrate the corporate environment very far, because they don't care about that environment.
I say this as someone who was involved in an Apple-in-the-data-center project which Apple was pushing hard and which was completely eviscerated by the switch-to-intel announcement. They didn't warn us, and frankly the entire economic rationale evaporated the day they did it.
So, no Apple in the normal corporate data center, and no Apple on the corporate desktop because they lack the central management tools that MS offers.
I can see Apple regaining lost ground in art departments and in small companies that don't use a centralized desktop management tool.
(Yes, I know about ARD - but ARD really doesn't scale well past a few dozen boxes.)