Re:Due Diligence and MacOS, Get Real? (Score 1)

Well, actually the problem with Macs is the interoperability that Microsoft has built between their products: Windows, Office and Explorer that create a real barrier to any other operating system to enter the corporate market.

As an example, see the large majority of web content management solutions that use MS Internet Explorer built-in functionalities and integration with Windows and Office to create a sort of text editor in Explorer so that web pages may be edit through a GUI and as such only work with Windows Explorer.

Another example is the company where I work that will need to give up from a number of Macs because the Customer Relationship Management solution adopted (running in Lotus Domino/Notes) uses a proprietary reporting tool "Intelliprint" to print reports using Office integration and also uses Office Windows only features to produce merge letters.

Please note that Notes runs natively on Mac OS X and all other features not related to MS products run perfectly on the Macs.

These are examples of the strategy adopted by Microsoft to avoid competitors entering its market and these are why both Mac OS X and Linux will, unfortunately, have serious difficulties competing with M$ on the corporate markets no matter or good they are and how bad MS Windows effectively is.

This is all so unfortunate and I do not know how we all let the situation come to this.

We all claim for freedom of choice in our day-to-day lives and activities, but unfortunately in one of the most important and strategic sectors for the development of humankind, computers and computer science, there is no choice at all!

Have you ever thought about this? How democratic can this world be?...