29 Jun 08 Survey Reports 8 in 10 Businesses Use Macs

A recent survey from Yankee Group Research Inc. reports that 8 in 10 businesses now use Apple Mac computers. This is almost double the amount from only 2 years ago. The Yankee Group surveyed over 700 senior IT managers and C-level executives. Out of those surveyed, 21% reported having over 50 Macs. One reason that many organizations are using more Macs now is because of the ability to virtualize many different OS’s on Apple hardware. Many organizations are using the Mac computers to run Vista, XP, Mac OS, and other operating systems. Laura DiDio from Yankee Group stated that many organizations are using virtualization products from Parallels and VMware. DiDio also said that the reason many organizations do not fully adopt Apple hardware to replace their current hardware is because the management tools and enterprise support is lacking from Apple.

Although Apple’s corporate market share is still only 8-10%, its still up from the 1-2% a few years ago. This can be very promising for Apple as well as those who use and create products for Apple products. Software developers can especially benefit from the increase in Apple products. If the trends keep continuing this way, Apple software development could become much more popular - especially with the availability of the free software development tools from Apple.

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