Re: Faster List Checking
Re: Faster List Checking
- Subject: Re: Faster List Checking
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 15:24:34 -0400
On 05/30/2003 15:03, "George Anten" <email@hidden> did proclaim:
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> Oh please, IS departments *love* X.
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Any publicly available support for this? Sales figures for market share
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available from third parties all indicate Apple's market share tanked nearly
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by half since OS X. Even Apple admits the fairly dire .edu situation.
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Nothing would please me more than a sharp uptake with OSX, but the numbers
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aren't bearing that out, are they? It's always the /next/ thing coming down,
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just wait: 10.1, Jag, Panther, G3, G4, 970, Xserver, Xraid, etc. I think
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everybody's just waiting for AppleScript X :-)
Market share is an absolutely silly way to judge success. Apple's share of
the computer market is far bigger than BMW's share of the auto market, no
one is calling BMW a failure.
The .edu market is not the corporate market. Not even close. The .com market
is looking at OS X, and seeing it's capabilities, and realizing that it's a
better alternative to windows than Linux ever was or will be in many ways. I
live in the corporate market far more than most Mac people, and I can tell
you for sure the Mac OS X is *far* more acceptable to corporate IT than 9
ever could have been.
Cox papers are rolling it out corporate wide *today* because they got tired
of Quark. Other papers are waiting for Quark. Note that many .edu domains
couldn't take OS X seriously at all until Jaguar for management reasons, and
that came out too late for them to really buy in any numbers.
But from what I can see, corporate computing is taking OS X *very* seriously
as of Jag.
john
--
"Nuts!"
- General Anthony McAuliffe, surrounded in Bastogne
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