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there is no equivalent apple product to microsoft exchange moondog Send a noteboard - 27/05/2010 07:58:04 PM
Please explain just exactly what you mean by "not as friendly for the business world as microsoft..." because lots of big companies run entirely on Macs. Anything that can be done on Windows CAN be done on a Mac, but some chose not to live up to Apple's exacting standards.

Those who are most vocally resistant to change are those in charge of support/IT who might lose their jobs or be forced to learn something new.

Apple does quite well for businesses.

In fact, one BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY manages to do it quite well.

You may have heard of them... APPLE COMPUTERS.

Also: http://www.apple.com/business/



until apple can create something even remotely useful as a mail server, they will always be behind on the enterprise market. i mean, sure, you can run a mail server on OSX but it doesn't have nearly the feature set and tools for large scale deployment the way exchange does.
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apple now bigger than microsoft moondog - 27/05/2010 07:12:48 AM 1148 Views
1. Hurrah! 2. I believe you are wrong... ImAMac - 27/05/2010 08:39:22 AM 746 Views
Name five fortune five hundrend companies that run "entirely on Macs" *NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2010 02:14:59 PM 348 Views
He can't. everynametaken - 27/05/2010 11:33:40 PM 766 Views
There's hasn't been a company called Apple Computers for years now Floffe - 27/05/2010 02:15:40 PM 795 Views
Anything that can be done on Windows can be done on a Mac? Really? Joel - 27/05/2010 03:01:01 PM 817 Views
Yes it will. ImAMac - 27/05/2010 03:43:11 PM 875 Views
MacOS will run my PC? Joel - 27/05/2010 04:02:43 PM 730 Views
Your stance is a little strange here... Legolas - 27/05/2010 08:33:19 PM 747 Views
It isn't hard to make a pc that boots mac Roland00 - 27/05/2010 08:58:43 PM 760 Views
You can also create a virtual machine running OSX on Windows *NM* BlackAdder - 28/05/2010 05:10:30 AM 352 Views
After Macs switched to Intel processing there were some hacks available to make them run on PCs. everynametaken - 27/05/2010 11:35:51 PM 750 Views
Do you know why IT will not run virtualization? It is quite simple. everynametaken - 27/05/2010 11:31:17 PM 752 Views
You can also run OSX on Windows. So what? *NM* BlackAdder - 28/05/2010 05:08:09 AM 342 Views
there is no equivalent apple product to microsoft exchange moondog - 27/05/2010 07:58:04 PM 720 Views
iDon't approve ironclad - 27/05/2010 08:43:38 AM 703 Views
-tortures- *NM* ImAMac - 27/05/2010 08:46:30 AM 332 Views
*touches* *NM* ironclad - 27/05/2010 08:47:50 AM 315 Views
nooo! Foxhead - 27/05/2010 10:06:21 AM 921 Views
steam is now available for mac moondog - 27/05/2010 08:04:34 PM 744 Views
Have you tried playing steam on a mac? Roland00 - 27/05/2010 09:00:06 PM 757 Views
even the authors of that article say "we didn't run this on a real mac" moondog - 28/05/2010 02:44:38 AM 747 Views
It was using the mac version of the 285 the most powerful video card on the mac Roland00 - 28/05/2010 06:02:33 AM 759 Views
it's still a big step though, you have to admit *NM* moondog - 28/05/2010 07:10:14 AM 338 Views
Yeah but I would recommend spend the 100 dollars for an OEM copy of windows and dual boot Roland00 - 28/05/2010 11:40:13 PM 749 Views
what's steam? *NM* Foxhead - 27/05/2010 11:22:38 PM 335 Views
steam is a giant gaming website moondog - 28/05/2010 02:38:23 AM 1019 Views
Steam is itunes for games, same idea, same business model *NM* Roland00 - 28/05/2010 06:04:00 AM 328 Views
Not only the consumer market though.. Bramhodoulos - 27/05/2010 10:26:50 AM 763 Views
that's becoming less true though..... moondog - 27/05/2010 08:01:17 PM 701 Views
Hmmmm.... Bramhodoulos - 28/05/2010 02:50:54 AM 747 Views
Microsoft is stil in better posistion random thoughts - 27/05/2010 02:25:09 PM 811 Views
Re: Microsoft is stil in better posistion callandor1000 - 27/05/2010 07:52:48 PM 722 Views
doesn't matter which phone it is what matters is that the i-phone can be replaced and windows can't random thoughts - 27/05/2010 08:34:13 PM 710 Views
actually your analysis fails to account for "cloud computing" moondog - 28/05/2010 12:43:42 AM 654 Views
The really big bucks is in server software as every business needs server software to run databases. everynametaken - 27/05/2010 11:20:41 PM 772 Views
what can't they run on iphones? moondog - 28/05/2010 02:41:18 AM 670 Views
Windows-only programs, presumably. Businesses use more than simple office products. Ghavrel - 28/05/2010 03:04:14 AM 694 Views
to use an oft-quoted phrase: "there's an app for that" moondog - 28/05/2010 03:30:26 AM 754 Views
To use a not-so-oft-quoted phrase, "Not if it doesn't conform to Apple specifications." Ghavrel - 28/05/2010 05:53:54 AM 735 Views
the point is, that businesses are finding ways to make it work, even though they don't like it moondog - 28/05/2010 07:07:31 AM 759 Views
There are lots of things... BlackAdder - 28/05/2010 10:15:44 AM 791 Views
Yeah, but their founders claimed to be bigger than Jesus and I didn't believe that either. Joel - 27/05/2010 02:50:00 PM 779 Views
True, Apple is definitely moving in the "Evil Empire" direction. Legolas - 27/05/2010 08:36:55 PM 659 Views
Moving? They arrived years ago. *NM* Wibble - 27/05/2010 08:41:05 PM 324 Views
Re: True, Apple is definitely moving in the "Evil Empire" direction. callandor1000 - 28/05/2010 12:04:54 AM 681 Views
Re: apple now bigger than microsoft callandor1000 - 27/05/2010 07:49:25 PM 718 Views
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