computerworld.com — Over the next 60 days, AWC will begin systematically pulling the plug on all Windows-based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute virtually all of its revenue-generating operations. The move comes on the heels of a quiet wholesale replacement of Windows-based servers for Apple Inc.’s Xserve RAID machines.
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wazzledoozle2Jul 23, 2007
Ditto.
powermacJul 23, 2007
READ THE F**KING ARTICLE LINUX ZEALOT
Closed AccountJul 23, 2007
Why are they running XP on them at all, either boot camp or parallels? They could just plop down a couple of terminal servers and remote desktop into the thing. Have a problem with Microsoft? Then use a Citrix server.After I reread this article, I am gonna call shenanigans, another source for this story or it is BS.
robotchicken1Jul 23, 2007
sigh
mrbitchAug 8, 2007
to all those who are saying " but they are running XP under parallels - are they actually switching their systems from Windows to OSX or not? " :from the article ( <a class="user" href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/print.php/12070_3689116_2">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/print.php/12070_3689116_2</a> ) :" ... The client software is being moved to Java, and while that porting effort is happening, they can run the old client in Windows under Parallels. "So - YES, while they are porting their software across to run under java, they are temporarily using Windows - and then BOOM ! All of their Macs will be running a fully Mac OS X environment all the way, BABY !
mrbitchAug 8, 2007
From this related article on the same story : <a class="user" href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/print.php/12070_3689116_3">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/appleent/print.php/12070_3689116_3</a> :" With all the PR and programs Microsoft has to induce companies in AWC's market segment to live in a Windows world, Apple's action without form created and won that opportunity. WIthout a massive influx of roadmaps, consultants and certification courses, heck, probably without actively doing a lot of anything, Apple was able to win another SMB company over to its fold.That, I think, is how Apple is going to become a force in the SMB market. Not by creating lock-in, and complex licensing, and PR blitzes. But by creating solid product that helps you spend less time with the monkeywork, and more time making money.By taking open standards from the old world of arcana, and moving them into the world of "it just works, and you don't have to lose functionality to lose lock-in." That is the significance of this. Not that Apple won mind- and marketshare from two mid-sized companies. Again, this is not a hint of some massive exodus. But rather that even though they consistently don't do the things that all wise IT pundits insist you must do to win in the business arena, Apple keeps picking up new customers. A few hundred here, a few hundred there, pretty soon, you're talking real marketshare. "