Yet another ‘Mac in the business world’ article

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http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_19/b4083036428429.htm

it amazes me to no end how stupidly stubborn some IT people are. Macs in the enterprise are fully viable and the support require by staff is minimal. If you can get away from Exchange, you’re golden…but even if you can’t, Entourage is acceptable (not my favorite program by far, but it is passable).

These are a few of my favorITe things:
You don’t have to deal with spyware, malware or dll hell.
You can easily backup and restore machine to the users preferred state when necessary.
You can create an encrypted image that will work on every Mac to which it is applied.
Macs can run any OS you want to install upon them, whether natively or in a VM.
Macs have built-in support for firewire booting, videoconferencing, dvd playback, wireless, wlan and vpn connections, and even media center capabilities.
The Mac is competitively priced with any PC that is worth a damn

The only real reason for not deploying Macs is prejudice against Apple for some perceived grievance - whether fresh (iPod overload) or old (K12 fiascos of the 90s).

As mentioned in another article I wrote last year, there are several things that Apple could do to make the adoption by business customers easier, but even without these changes the Mac in the enterprise is just a smart choice.