74 percent of companies plan to expand Mac use
updated 08:20 pm EDT, Sun March 15, 2009
Enterprise to add Macs
Enterprise Desktop Alliance has announced a the results of a recent survey, indicating that 74-percent of 314 companies expect to increase the number of Macs within the organizations. Fewer than two percent of the respondents said they would be reducing the number of Apple computers. The survey also reported that productivity gains and employee preference are the main reasons enterprises are adopting Macs. Lower cost of ownership is also playing an important role in Mac growth. Of the IT administrators who responded, almost 60 percent manage 100 or more Macs in a wide range of enterprise-class companies.
A majority of the respondents placed a high priority on maintaining equality between the management of Mac and PC systems. The administrators did have concerns about certain subjects relating to Mac integration, however, such as Active Directory, client management, file sharing, security and data recovery, among others.
The survey was conducted between November and December 2008, with goals of measuring organizational commitment to the Mac platform, assessing Mac-Windows integration and identifying IT priorities relating to the Mac.
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74% of 314 companies that already have macs* and self-selected to participate in the survey intend to buy more.
So who conducted the survey and made the press release? The "Enterprise Desktop Alliance." And who are they? Just a bunch of companies that sell products "designed to maintain the Mac experience for users even as they interface with the Windows infrastructure."
What's next? Surveys conducted in Apple stores that show that Macs are now the world's most popular computer?
I'm a recent Mac convert, but this kind of thing is just embarrassing.
Read the rest of the press release:
"About the Enterprise Desktop Alliance
Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) solutions are specifically designed to maintain the Mac experience for users even as they interface with the Windows infrastructure. At the same time, by extending the standard Windows-based management environment, EDA solutions enable the Mac to be viewed and to act as a peer to Windows in an enterprise.
Using the solutions from EDA companies, IT administrators can deliver the same standards of service, maintain uniform client configuration, enforce the same security controls, make the same sharepoints and print queues available, deliver the same disaster recovery, and enforce the same coompliance policies for both Mac and Windows systems. And those same capabilities can be applied to the virtual version of Windows that runs on the Mac.
The cross-platform solutions available from the Alliance members address Enterprise Data
Protection – Atempo; Identity & Access Management – Centrify; File Sharing & Print Services – Group Logic; Systems Lifecycle Management – LANrev; and Virtualization – Parallels.
For more information, visit www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com."