Thu, 14 Mar 2002
IT dweebs protecting their job
IT dweebs protecting their job security means a tough road for Apple in corporate America. [Business Week]
Instability in the Wintel world can be traced to a few factors: 1) rate of change 2) big target for hackers, 3) Microsoft design mistakes, and 4) availability and ease of installing 3rd party software. I agree that Mac would cure these things in the short term; however, points 1, 2, and 4 would approach the PC problem as OSX proliferates.The real question is whether Apple's hardware and OS design could overcome 1, 2 and 4. It would not be difficult to make an argument that Linux would have similar results for a variety of shops with usability being an irritant in the short term. We run Linux for a variety of tasks from test web servers, test mail servers, and test oracle boxes and have none of the reliability issues normally associated with the Wintel platform.
I know of at least one guy that I worked with that does all his java work at home on OSX. I'm also aware of a cult of kids at a top 3 engineering school that are very enthusiastic about OSX, so I believe the mindshare is shifting, albeit slowly. I will purchase my first apple when my current Dell laptop outlives it's usefulness. That would be a TiBook.
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