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> For 99% of enterprise users, there really isn't a barrier to switching to another productivity suite. Well, not running on Windows is a barrier. The iPad has
by Touche 13y ago
> For 99% of enterprise users, there really isn't a barrier to switching to another productivity suite.
Well, not running on Windows is a barrier. The iPad has gained some acceptance in Enterprise for salespeople but until it gets more official keyboard support and corporate controls added it won't replace office computers.
There is iWorks web apps but there you're competing with Google Docs and Google Docs is the gold standard safe bet. Pretty much every company that switches off Office goes to Docs. They want the full suite, not just a word processor and spreadsheet, what's Apple's enterprise email solution? Also Google makes a handful of utilities that make it easier to transition off of Office, like Google Apps Sync[1]. Apple's going to have to give up their "we only write software for our own platforms" stance if they want to seriously compete in the enterprise.
[1]https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gappssync
- shadesandcolour 13y agoThere's mail support built into OS X Server. Will it handle as many users as an exchange server? Probably not, but the built in mail clients on all of the iOS and Mac devices handle exchange email _relatively_ well (duck and hide!). As for making it easy to transition off of Office, Pages, Numbers and Keynote will all open up all of the microsoft file formats.