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Alliance to advocate for Macs in the enterprise
Five companies, Atempo, Centrify, GroupLogic, LANrev, and Parallels have joined forces to form the Enterprise Desktop Alliance, which will promote the deployment of Macs in the enterprise. All of the companies focus on integrating Mac OS X with Windows and PC-based network infrastructures.
Peter Frankl, chief operating officer at LANrev, says it wants IT departments to know they can successfully integrate Mac solutions for their large businesses.
For now, the consortium offers little more than product information about each member company's software, but Frankl says the organization wants to create a resource for IT pros to share best practices.
MacEnterprise.org is a well-known community of IT professionals with similar goals, but without the financial clout of the five-company consortium. The organization has not yet responded to a request for comment.
[Via Infoworld]
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Francis Carden said 8:58AM on 7-02-2008
Virtualized windows desktop applications on a MAC by default are in a bubble and limited to copy and paste integration. Pretty sad. However, OpenSpan has built a technology that allows windows applications running in the same or different windows bubbles to talk to each other. Even the native MAC machine can have full automated control of the windows applications.
OpenSpan effectively virtualizes the presentation layer of applications running in the windows o/s bubble and then exposes that interface through a web service that is callable from anywhere, including other Mac applications!
Office applications, windows applications, JAVA, DOS, Web, Mainframe applications running in the windows o/s bubble can all be integrated and put under the control of the MAC - at last...Game Changing...
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