Submission + - Why Businesses Are Embracing Macs (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "The recent trend toward allowing users to manage their own PCs has provided Mac OS X further inroads into business environments, InfoWorld reports. According to a recent IT survey, 23 percent of respondents had at least 30 Macs in their businesses, 12 percent had at least 4,000 Macs — and 68 percent said they would let users choose Macs as their work PCs in the next year. Driven by several factors — Apple's conversion to Intel, several virtualization options to run Windows on the Mac OS, the rise of the Web among corporate applications, among them — IT's further acceptance of the Mac in business marks a significant change in corporate IT: 'an increased willingness to let down the fortress gates and let employees use the systems they feel most productive with,' the article reports."