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I work at a large tech company, and we've embraced macs for the last 2 years or so. The macs are still more expensive than the standard company issue, but they

by trout 15y ago

I work at a large tech company, and we've embraced macs for the last 2 years or so. The macs are still more expensive than the standard company issue, but they are able to offset the cost by offering 0 IT mac support. If you're wanting to go off the beaten path, fix your own issues. There are internal wiki's where the mac enthusiasts pour time into other people's issues, and a general word-of-mouth troubleshooting culture. From the context of the conversations I've heard, I think the major hurdles are around security, support, and hardware costs. Before I'm jumped for implying less security with macs, it's still centered around the ability for the enterprise to control virus scanners, DLP, workgroup rights, generic company control, etc. Whether the operating system is more/less secure is still a religious argument - my guess is more IT staffs consider it less secure however. Which leads to an interesting question - since the user experience has lead to a large enterprise install base, when does Apple start prioritizing business needs? Admittedly I'm not an apple user, but I haven't seen any indication that's it's even on a list. I imagine I'm incorrect.

yardie 15y ago
I work in a small enterprise and Macs have slowly taken over and especially now that Macbook Air is out the mobile users are almost exclusively Macs. Some of the things we found were Virus scanners didn't really work on Macs. They predominantly scanned Word documents for virus macros so we dropped that requirement and pushed scanning onto the network. I guess workgroup rights work for us. We aren't very large so having lots of hierarchical rights doesn't make sense. One of our founders still hates OSX but found the Macbook Pro to be well designed, so he's gotten that far. Security is a bit of a strange one. We have some clients where we can only access their network using a cardkey or thumb scanner. I still haven't figured out how to do this on a Mac. Apple used to go after the Enterprise market in the early aughts but I think Jobs just didn't care about it. Preferring the consumer and education markets instead. I don't blame them, if you look at Microsoft they were keeping a dead browser going because enterprise clients kept throwing money at them to support. To me, some enterprise software is just badly written and since the company has a lot of money tied up in using and supporting it they want their vendors to also support it. This is something, I doubt, Apple is willing to do.

by trout 15y ago

yardie 15y ago

I work in a small enterprise and Macs have slowly taken over and especially now that Macbook Air is out the mobile users are almost exclusively Macs. Some of the things we found were Virus scanners didn't really work on Macs. They predominantly scanned Word documents for virus macros so we dropped that requirement and pushed scanning onto the network. I guess workgroup rights work for us. We aren't very large so having lots of hierarchical rights doesn't make sense. One of our founders still hates OSX but found the Macbook Pro to be well designed, so he's gotten that far. Security is a bit of a strange one. We have some clients where we can only access their network using a cardkey or thumb scanner. I still haven't figured out how to do this on a Mac. Apple used to go after the Enterprise market in the early aughts but I think Jobs just didn't care about it. Preferring the consumer and education markets instead. I don't blame them, if you look at Microsoft they were keeping a dead browser going because enterprise clients kept throwing money at them to support. To me, some enterprise software is just badly written and since the company has a lot of money tied up in using and supporting it they want their vendors to also support it. This is something, I doubt, Apple is willing to do.