Apple goes to work

A few years ago if you asked a CIO of a Fortune 500 company if they would consider using an Apple server in their enterprise installation the answer would be a resounding no. The IT landscape has changed a lot in just a few years, Apple released OS X, the Xserve, and thousands of script kiddies wrote hundreds of pieces of malware to exploit vulnerabilities in the go to guy of IT shops everywhere, Microsoft.

Nowadays we get articles in Computerworld with quotes like this: ‘No one expects Macs to displace Windows as the desktop of choice for general-purpose computing. But Apple has deflected intense competition in its core vertical markets. And, for the first time, it’s becoming a credible contender as an alternative for servers inside the data center.’

With companies like Oracle, Genetech, and Home Depot adopting Apple’s Xserves and OS X can total world domination be far behind?