A consortium of five companies have founded the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) to promote the deployment of Macs in the enterprise.
The five founding companies include Centrify, LANrev, Atempo, GroupLogic, and Parallels, all of which already produce solutions to help integrate Macs into Windows-dominated enterprises.
The alliance will validate and promote the availability of solutions that make it easy to deploy, integrate and manage Macs using Microsoft Windows-based solutions.
“Interest in the Mac at large organizations is growing along with Apple’s market share,” said Bob O’Donnell, Vice President, IDC. “The challenge has been overcoming objections surrounding managing Macs within these corporate environments. Efforts that can make life easier for the IT professional and help the Mac become a more appealing and realistic alternative within the enterprise could help turn that interest into a stronger Mac presence.”
EDA will be host a series of events, including webcasts and seminars, and will provide white papers, product information and other resources to help enterprise users make the move to Mac integration.
“The popularity of the Mac among corporate end-users does not mean that there have to be headaches for IT administrators,” said Peter Frankl, Founder and Chief Operating Officer of LANrev. “We are determined to help companies integrate Macs into their enterprise environments by reducing total cost of ownership and increasing IT acceptance of Macs in the enterprise.”
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It's about darn time!
It's about time. I'm sick of having to use windows at work.
Same here, MadMike, but my
Same here, MadMike, but my company would never allow me to get a Mac for the office. There'd be a butt-load of whining about AutoCAD running on a virtual machine.
Life after Microsoft -- finally...
I can't count the times I've heard Macs don't network well, Macs are too complicated, they don't right click [bogus], they're good at home machines, but not work work machines ...
You encounter a slew of endless excuses made by sys admins who only want to work in Windows.
It's about time. And those who said Macs could never make it in enterprise, I say -- just wait, watch, and see.
There is an annoying lack of diversity and competition for the corporate desktop o/s... Enough Windows already ...
Kepp on Dreaming
No matter how good you think the platform is or how well and nice it is to work with, CIOs (these are IT managers who run BIG environments - not 20 user mom and pop operations) will always go with Windows. Nobody ever was fired for choosing Microsoft.
Thanks for showing up to the dance 30 years too late, Apple.
In a sense of course, if the
In a sense of course, if the driving issue really is "no one ever got fired for using Windows", then there, in short, you have a driving indictement of all businesses of the Western world, and a one line explanation as to why the economic power has moved to the East.
Times they are a changin'
Times they are a changin' though and thanks to the fiasco that is Vista and the upcoming fiasco that Windows 7 will be this is a great time for the enterprise to switch to OS X.
I run in both environments at
I run in both environments at home, and comments like the one above is what kills it for the Mac enthusiasts. Your overdoing of how terrible Vista is, does no favors for anyone. Is Vista as nice as MacOS? To me, no it isn't, but does it accomplish the task and remain stable? Yes it does. Would I prefer working on a mac at work, heck yes, but Vista is no monster and your comments do nothing to help the Mac argument, it only serves to label you as an Apple fanboi and your opinions / ideas are labeled as such.