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Please list enterprise-class software titles that are Windows only and impeding a corporate IT switch. I'm looking for some incumbents to slay. :-)
by lukateake 11y ago
Please list enterprise-class software titles that are Windows only and impeding a corporate IT switch. I'm looking for some incumbents to slay. :-)
- Joe8Bit 11y agoIf someone came up with a way of doing large scale fleet management of Mac devices (software installs, updates, rights management et al) in a vaugley similar way to the way Windows env (eg point and click) they'd make an absolutely fortune.
- stephenr 11y agoApple does have tools for imaging/managing Macs - a combination of Profile Manager and Remote Desktop. Also, if you have system administrators for OS X machines who need a point-and-click interface for everything, you need to take another look at your hiring practices. Edit: oh and for the initial imaging you need to use NetInstall and System Image Utility, but they're not separate products still.
- dvanduzer 11y agoApple doesn't sell any hardware that you can put in your data center, so you can't run those tools by most definitions of Enterprise Grade.
- cpach 11y agoSure they do, just throw in some Mac Pros or Minis in rackmount enclosures :-p http://www.sonnettech.com/product/adapters/index.html http://www.sonnettech.com/product/adapters/index.html
- stephenr 11y agoThere is a datacenter in Las Vegas with a great number of rack mounted MacMini's. I would imagine even the new mac pro's can even be rack mounted if necessary.
- reirob 11y agoMS Project
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoSQL Server (and client tools). Sharepoint. Active Directory.
- watersb 11y agoSerious question, since I'm decades out of date with corporate IT: Are these considered problems or solutions? AD solved problems for the last company I was at, but only for the minority of machines running Windows.
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoFor the majority of businesses that are running all Windows computers? Yes, these are solutions. Otherwise they wouldn't be billion dollar businesses for Microsoft.
- Corrado 11y agoMy employer just switched to an Office 365 solution for Sharepoint (Sites), Email, Word, Excel, etc. It runs on anything with a web browser. No Windows required.