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Macs in the enterprise not welcomed by CIOs

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Created Sep 17 2007 - 6:59am

With sales of Macs surging, you can bet that these computers, once only seen in advertising and graphics companies, are making progress in the enterprise. Apple sold 36 percent more Macs in the second quarter than during the same quarter last year. As exciting as this may sound, it could prove a mixed blessing for CIOs. Bryan Bowers at Bowers Technologies in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., says that his clients have had problems with strong network security on the Mac. Much of it can be traced to signed server message block connections. He also said that his clients have trouble connecting to network printers from a Mac.

For all the details on Apple in the enterprise:
- see the article [1] in ComputerWorld


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http://www.fiercecio.com/story/macs-enterprise-not-welcomed-cios/2007-09-17