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IBM Launches Pilot Program for... Migrating to Macs!
roughlydrafted.com — IBM ’s Research Information Services has launched an internal pilot program to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to Macs. The study has already found an enthusiastic response from participants and is helping to drive Mac support for IBM’s business applications.
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- MJ420, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4Good read, Daniel...Thumbs up!
- Rauby, on 04/16/2008, -1/+5"19 of 22 (86%) Users Ask to Keep the Mac."
Now that's something. - DouglasScott, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1IBM has morphed into something truly bizarre.
- topping, on 04/16/2008, -1/+0IBM follows their nose, and it's hard to argue they don't know what they are doing. They are one of the innovators of the modern operating system, and Watson Research Center is where a lot of their seminal work comes out of. They recognize a superior desktop operating system when they see it, and if it was Vista, that's where they would be going.
I wonder how the "Vista@IBM" group is doing, haha.
- topping, on 04/16/2008, -1/+0IBM follows their nose, and it's hard to argue they don't know what they are doing. They are one of the innovators of the modern operating system, and Watson Research Center is where a lot of their seminal work comes out of. They recognize a superior desktop operating system when they see it, and if it was Vista, that's where they would be going.
- carpetbomberz, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2As one of the participants quoted in the study said, "I'm glad IBM is trying to think different"
- thenumber8, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2he actually said, “I commend IBM on taking this bold step in providing an alternative to Windows. It will definitely allow us to think different.”
- nufoto, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2Well I guess it's better to be late to the Party than miss it altogether ....Gee was it not that long ago that IBM was producing Chip's for the Apple Platform...... say G5....let see my 9600 has a PPC 604e manufactured by IBM and now they decide to switch???
- geogeer, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0Enemies becoming friends, becoming allies... *sigh* what is the world coming to?
- njickfields, on 04/17/2008, -1/+1gee! .. i recently moved from a small web consulting firm to a big studio ... and from friggin' PC to Mac - with slight fear though. thanks IBM no longer afterthought ! long life to corporate Mac life ! yeeehaaaa !
- rmxz, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1It'd be nice if other companies would do this too - especially other computer companies so perhaps they'd wake up to better platforms than Windows. I added an idea suggesting that Dell try this too on their IdeaStorm site:
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10087744/Eva ... - techManiac, on 04/21/2008, -0/+0Google and Cisco both offer Macs as an option. I'm looking at a new employee letter from Facebook that offers employees the choice of a Mac. Facebook seems to actually encourage the Mac choice.
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