Oracle uses Apple storage gear

[MacBytes]

Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Oracle uses Apple storage gear (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20041207001109)
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[macnulty]

Success of Xserve is important to the future expansion of Mac on the desktop. Not tomorrow or next month but years down the road as businesses are exposed to the Mac in that enviroment, it makes Mac on the office desktop a more palatable idea. In turn, the computer at work becomes the computer at home.

[macridah]

Macs entering the enterprise market may be another halo effect for desktop macs. crossing fingers.

[StarbucksSam]

Macs entering the enterprise market may be another halo effect for desktop macs. crossing fingers.

What exactly is HALO effect? Does that have anything to do with the game HALO or is it referring to a spreading "ring" par se?

[Diatribe]

What exactly is HALO effect? Does that have anything to do with the game HALO or is it referring to a spreading "ring" par se?

It is referred to the HALO effect because HALO got a lot of people to buy the xbox because of the game itself. Therefore products that are entry products and produce synergy purchases are considered HALO effects.

[jholzner]

It is referred to the HALO effect because HALO got a lot of people to buy the xbox because of the game itself. Therefore products that are entry products and produce synergy purchases are considered HALO effects.

I hope you don't really believe that's where it originated.

[Diatribe]

I hope you don't really believe that's where it originated.

:D ;)

[Diatribe]

Ok before any more people really seriously think that the first definition was serious, here's the real explanation.

The halo effect is the extension of an overall impression of a particular product or trait of a person to influence the total judgement of the product line/company or person.

[nagromme]

The halo effect refers to the massive success of the iPod, a dark shadow eclipsing the light of the Mac platform, which can now only be seen dimly around the edges of the iPod fad.

(No, that wasn't serious either. People expect iPod fans to eventually try Macs too. That's the halo effect and I'm all for it. I'm all for iPod success even without that too--it hardly hurts the Mac for Apple to succeed with the iPod. And the halo effect could be even better with IT: eventually if Macs make their job easier and they can find a way to stay useful without fighting MS problems, then sometimes they can pretty much TELL a lot of people--even CEOs--what they're going to get. Macs! Then the halo spreads home when those people--however small a segment--like the Macs they use at work. "Eventually" is the key word in all this!)

[Santaduck]

hahaha i love this forum sometimes. more halo please =)

anyways, Oracles endorsement is HUGE news, it surely will make more than a few IT managers cross the line to obvious cost savings when they had only been unsure of the brand... and now Oracle is comfortable with that brand.


soon, Xsan (http://www.apple.com/xsan) too. wow.