According to a VMWare study macs become more and more popular in Enterprise environments.
Interesting blog here:
https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/06/apple-enterprise-invasion.html
[quote=109055:@Oliver Osswald]According to a VMWare study macs become more and more popular in Enterprise environments.
Interesting blog here:
https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2014/06/apple-enterprise-invasion.html[/quote]
The guy sells well VMWare Fusion 
That said, there are corporate areas where Mac is a de facto standard. Publishing departments, advertisement, architecture …
[quote=109074:@Michel Bujardet]The guy sells well VMWare Fusion
That said, there are corporate areas where Mac is a de facto standard. Publishing departments, advertisement, architecture …[/quote]
Not architecture - for many years, AutoCAD wasn’t available on the Mac and Windows became the standard there. I supported a ton of PC desktops running AutoCAD. Yuck
AutoCAD USED to exist on Macs
Up til 92 (AutoCAD 12), disappeared for a LONG time (despite OS X underpinnings being Unix which AutoCad did support) til it returned in 2010
I had the pleasure of replacing a small army of Macs with PC’s at that time since Vellum and others weren’t suitable replacements for CADPipe (which relies on AutoCAD)
Indeed, hence “many years” 
But I don’t think Apple cares much for the enterprise market on the desktop. For the smartphone and tablet market, they seem to make more effort. But they just can’t/won’t compete with the low-end box shifters on the desktop in most office environments, they just don’t play in that market, where the absolute lowest ticket price is the goal (regardless of the total cost of ownership).
[quote=109103:@Gavin Smith]Indeed, hence “many years” 
But I don’t think Apple cares much for the enterprise market on the desktop. For the smartphone and tablet market, they seem to make more effort. But they just can’t/won’t compete with the low-end box shifters on the desktop in most office environments, they just don’t play in that market, where the absolute lowest ticket price is the goal (regardless of the total cost of ownership).[/quote]
Odd but the initial bottom line - not the long term cost - is the metric. Which is so badly placed.
I worked IN the accounting dept way back when & they actually DID their own analysis instead of relying on Gartner etc. (Groups I still loathe as its just “follow the herd” advice)
Most Macs in that company were used for typing emails & such so didn’t need to be high powered - SE’s and SE/30s dominated for a long time. Eventually IICi’s moved down the food chain as folks who needed higher end machines moved up. Even when Apple moved to PPC based machines a lot of SE/30’s remained.
I left in late 1993. Many of those same machines were 10+ years old when I returned several years later on contract (1998)
TCO on those machines was low. They were fully depreciated. And because of how this company was regulated they earned money on them and earned a lot more once they were fully depreciated. (allowable rate of return on capital)
They eventually moved to PC’s - and promptly hopped on the “upgrade every 3-5 years cycle” and are still there today.
Except for the dept’s that have remained with Macs because they had custom software etc (demonstrable business need)
They had just finished rolling out NT 5 when XP landed. XP when Vista landed and I think they just finished rolling out Windows 7 as Windows 8 landed.
I don’t miss that 
Those days are back!
AutoCAD exists for Mac again. 
CAD Software - AutoCad for Mac & Windows
[quote=109074:@Michel Bujardet]The guy sells well VMWare Fusion
That said, there are corporate areas where Mac is a de facto standard. Publishing departments, advertisement, architecture …[/quote]
These days it goes further than this. My corporation (one of the top 10 largest in the world) started a mac pilot three years ago. Nowadays most of IT has moved to Mac and most of the executives have as well.
I’m sure this happened due to BYOD forcing Windows-only teams to open to other platforms, a sort of gateway drug. Once the door was opened it was allowed for users to bring their own computers in some situations and it turned out most of IT had macs at home (I know me and my whole team did) and we all then turned into the Mac pilot (of which we’re not veterans but thousands of new mac users join all the time).
At this stage I’d say the Mac population in my company has a greater % share than macs to at home:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203721704577156704148493394
Believe me, if my company is accepting Macs then it is a big trend
Interesting (and relevant!) bit of trivia: The software being used to provide an intranet “app store” and the remote administration needs is Xojo-Based (or, rather, RealStudio-Based): http://www.jamfsoftware.com/
Funnily, “move to Cocoa” is a point of discussion there as well, but for other reasons 
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/featureRequest.html?id=712
I commute most days of the week into London and I would say at least 50% of laptop users on the train are using mac. It surprised me how many did.
when I was working in SLough and staying in London, on the train out to Slough and back in in the evening, I would say there was a higher precentage of Macs on the train. Then again myself and my peers might have been skewing the precentages some. The company I was (am) working for, the geeks (engineers/system admins) were given a choice of a Mac or a Windows machine. Some of us tooks Macs as that was their choice platform. Some took Macs since it had less overhead mgt software running on them from corpIT.
Macs in the enterprise has risen a lot in the last few years. Not enough that Microsoft is worried. But enough that Microsoft is now supporting Macs on some of their enterprise software (like SCCM).
Some years ago, when I worked in IT, I felt that one of the reasons the department was opposed to Macs was that Windows literally kept us in a job…
I have spoken to several CIOs/Head of IT that prefer windows as they have the tools to lock down and really restrict what the "PC"s can do (and not do). My response is if you have to be that paranoid and lock everything down, so your employees dont do anything wrong, you have the wrong employees. A few got what I was saying, most didnt. Sad.
if I ever interview again (should say IF but WHEN since we all do it at some point), I ask about what laptop options do we get and what software/hardware restrictions they have put on the laptops. I am lucky that my current employer doesnt have a lot of restrictive software (on either platform PC or MAC).