Working for a company that does significant amounts of design work, being a ‘Microsoft house’ can cause our users some headaches. Although the design guys all love their mac’s, as an IT group traditionally it’s been hard for us support them and integrate them into the rest of our environment. There are plenty of aspects to this problem and it’s something I’ll be writing about more over the coming months. For now though, lets just say its an area that we know we can do better in.
It was with great interest then that I read this post over on RoughlyDrafted about IBM’s own testing and pilot project for Mac’s. I imagine that IBM’s drivers are much the same our own, end user demand being weighed against a business driver for IT cheaper IT services – and hence an standardised environment. Not something you’d currently want – or be able – to do with Apple, multi-platform has to be the way forward.
The article is perhaps a little over-zealous, there are huge challenges in providing multi-platform IS services and still being cost effective, but I’ll be watching this with interest. I think I’ll be calling in my IBM account guys for a chat soon.
Anyone else out there do similar work or running both platform in a big way?