Report: Apple to make significant enterprise gains in 2011

Despite Apple's insistence that it is a mobile device company, it turns out that the Mac category is far from done growing. A new study from the Enterprise Desktop Alliance says that 2011 is set to be a huge year for Mac on the enterprise level, with reportedly 25 percent of all new systems in that category being Macs. That would be astonishing, and would move the Mac from the current figure of 3.3 percent of enterprise systems up to 5 percent. All of this growth, says the EDA, will primarily come from companies who have already chosen Apple's technology for their systems -- they'll just be buying more of it.

Why all the growth? Most of the respondents said that "parity in integration and management between Macs and PCs" was the biggest deal for them, and certainly Apple has moved strongly in that direction recently, with the switch to Intel chips and more compatible software than ever. Businesses also cited security as a concern, and while it's not specifically mentioned in the report, you have to believe that the huge emergence of the iPhone and the iPad in the business world has done something to drive adoption of the Mac in that environment as well.

Enterprise Mac sales are already gigantic, but according to what enterprise customers are saying, they're going to get even bigger in the next year.

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Source: http://www.macworld.com/article/155002/2010/10/enterprise_ma…

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I call BS on this story, coming from a tech worker who orders machines on a daily basis for many clients

October 22 2010 at 8:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan Mosqueda

CEOs are using ipads. In fact, I know of a 4-Star General who uses one for official business (briefings on the run, etc..,). So what? Well, at some point they will wonder why they can't have an iMac on their desk etc... It could lead to Apple-based networks. Apple is getting at THE decision makers. Make no mistake about it.

October 21 2010 at 10:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kelmon

Previously I would have scoffed at such a suggestion. As much as I love my Mac, and I would dearly love to use it at work, I am conscious of the fact that Macs are damned expensive and that money is hardly plentiful in businesses today. However, I recently discovered that my company (a major Fortune 500 corporation with about 275,000 employees worldwide) has begun trialing the Mac and not just for our Sales division. Why they have decided to do this is beyond me but they are and if that means that I can use a Mac at work then I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

October 21 2010 at 4:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Why is it, if Apple calls itself a mobile device company, there are no Apple branded mobile chargers (12VDC) available for iOS sevices?

October 20 2010 at 10:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luke

Apple insisted on being a mobile device company since most products shipped are mobile products. That includes - also according to the statement back then - mobile Macs, since those make up a big chunk of those mobile products. Hence, "the Mac category" has always been included...

October 20 2010 at 9:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Seth

Enterprise *Desktop* alliance, not server.

October 20 2010 at 8:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sepirioth

As long as the price stays that high it will not happen. Enterprise? How about you can get at least 4 computers of the same specs if not better with a longer "life expectancy" for the same price as one.

October 20 2010 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply