Enterprise Mac is Weak, Enterprise Linux is Promising

It’s surreal to read analysts with their paralysis over Windows and Macintosh enterprise desktop deployment. Neither Microsoft or Apple are creating enterprise visions for the desktop. It’s an epic dilemma on a scale with Odysseus sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. Microsoft’s problems with Vista’s performance are not likely to be resolved with Windows 7 without a kernel revision. Did everyone forget what happened between Windows 95 and XP ? Because what is happening right now looks like Windows 98 and Windows Millennium. Apple’s problems are more subtle, because they are selling so easily in the executive suites. C.G. Lynch and Robert Lemos discuss the "Tangled Path For Macs in the Enterprise" in the lastest CIO edition (it’s not on-line yet, so look under Essential Technology). Macs may have become a successful consumer product, but not so much in the enterprise. Apple is still seen as essentially a "consumer-oriented com...