Mac Government and Enterprise Sales Leap in 2Q 2010

[MorphingDragon]

Uh ? You went from dual booting to a hypervisor running OSes in I guess parallele ? And I have news for you, yes, a hypervisor is a form of virtualisation. VMWare ESX is a hypervisor.

These weren't running VMWare. Hypervisor isn't the correct term but its the closest description without divulging too much information. I'm not allowed to say anything because my 10 year contract of my old job is still in effect. I can't even name my old job or what the business did.

 

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As a Gov't person now with a Mac next to my PC ...

...Whilst I agree that there needs to be an evaluation phase for introducing new platforms I don't think it's ever IT's place to dictate what can and cannot be evaluated.
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Of course a major rollout is another matter, that's where the cost justification and risk analysis exercise really comes in. But to simply turn round and say users cannot even have test units until IT have "played with" them is completely the wrong approach.

This - This is why I'm disappointed by a lot of IT Admins now. Working with staff being a particularly big thing.

Firing all of the in-house IT and replacing them with a contractor has been done of late to control costs, but it has also had the side effect to recalibrate IT's attitude from a self serving "lazy nanny" overhead consumer, back into allignment who cares about the IT-consuming business units who are the ones who delivers product to the real (external) customers.

The majority of the people in this thread clearly have no enterprise, government, or even small-network admin environments (see phillipduran's comment above). For better or for worse, large government agencies are firmly invested in the Windows environment and will not be switching, probably ever. Local and state governments are comparatively small fish, and given the condition of the economy and most state budgets I'd be amazed if there was any mass exodus from the Windows environment given all the subsidiary systems and software that would have to be replaced as a result.

True, but what's really changed IMO is that the historically, there was a complete intolerance for anything non-Windows, and it is that specific barrier that has fallen.

As such, there's a newly found freedom for business units to finally go explore ... and maybe adopt ... alternative technologies that may prove to be beneficial to improving their business operations & productivity.


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[KnightWRX]

These weren't running VMWare. Hypervisor isn't the correct term but its the closest description without divulging too much information. I'm not allowed to say anything because my 10 year contract of my old job is still in effect. I can't even name my old job or what the business did.

How convenient. We went from dual booting is elegant, to running a hypervisor, to "I can't talk about it, but it's really elegant!".

 

[MorphingDragon]

How convenient. We went from dual booting is elegant, to running a hypervisor, to "I can't talk about it, but it's really elegant!".

No its not convenient. I'm literally not allowed to talk about where I worked at for the last 4 years. My Facebook and Twitter account (and I think my MacRumors and Fedora Forums account) is monitored, and if I tell I get fined more than I've ever learned in my life. I can't even put it on my CV, not for another 6 years.

Like I said, I can't divulge but hypervisor is the closest description without breaking my contract.

Oh and I didn't say dual booting is elegant or that we were running a hypervisor, I said I've seen dual booting done elegantly and hypervisor was the closest description to what this piece of software did. Please get your arguments right.