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When I worked at JPM in the late 90s the whole shop was Apple. Ironically, they gave them up just as Steve Jobs was coming back. Doesn't really answer your ques
by vegabook 11y ago
When I worked at JPM in the late 90s the whole shop was Apple. Ironically, they gave them up just as Steve Jobs was coming back. Doesn't really answer your question directly but it does show that Apple as a mainstream corporate platform can be viable (IBM had them for more than a decade and gave up mainly because AAPL was looking like it might go bust).
- kokey 11y agoFunny, I had JPMC in mind when I was reading this article. They're already relatively bring-your-own-device friendly and supply dumb terminals with virtual desktops at the moment, which is probably the best and most cost effective general solution, but I wouldn't be surprised if many business units, especially on the customer facing side, would find this IBM+Mac offering very appealing.
- arnold_palmur 11y agoI'm also at JPMC and (at least in my department) it's definitely not bring-your-own-device friendly - and as someone who wholeheartedly prefers using a Mac, I feel like I had to bend over backwards to get my PC in a state to where I was halfway efficient and comfortable developing on it.
- vegabook 11y agoWhen they started disabling USB ports, and then I had to fill in forms for some IT dogsbody to install R for me ("open source....oooooh dunno about that! - will have to apply to Compliance for approval")... that's when I decided my days were numbered on the sellside (this was Barcap btw). Nowadays, in all domains of sellside finance, compliance completely rules the roost, and is snuffing out all initiative.
- kokey 11y agoWell, it's bring-your-own-device friendly as far as you can run the thin client on your own device, to your virtual Windows desktop. I don't develop on my Mac, I prefer to do development for Linux and UNIX servers on a Linux development server or image anyway, so it suits me.