how far have mac's made it into large installations?

Wed Apr 20 16:47:15 PDT 2011

Over the last four years Netflix has moved to be mostly Mac and iPhone
with a few holdout areas and individuals. that includes development,
operations and management. Groups like legal and finance are mostly
windows based and we are on windows 7 everywhere now.

The macs all have parallels installed but I never need to use it.

Adrian

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Greg Kulosa <greg at kulosa.org> wrote:
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>
> We are mostly a Windows shop for desktops.  Servers are FreeBSD.  I asked
> for a Mac when I started, because I spend all my time in a terminal
> anyway, so I love having a native xterm and shell.  Plus I get regular
> Microsoft Office, which everyone knows how to deal with.
>
> We have now grown to a few more Mac's for people who request them.
>
> I was recently promoted to essentially the Director of IT, but I just
> can't justify the hardware cost of converting everyone to a Mac, although
> I'd really like to.
>
> So we are sticking with Windows, mostly.
>
>
> But to answer your question, yes the Mac population does seem to be
> growing, and getting more acceptable in the corporate world.
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> I don't have any widespread management tools for them, although I am
> considering getting a Time Machine compatible backup server for them.
>
> We don't have any Apple servers, though, if that is what you are asking
> about managing.
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> -Greg
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:14:40PM -0700, Ray Wong wrote:
>> Hi all, found myself wondering:
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>> Seems like Macs have become a lot more common, mostly on the corporate
>> IT side but I guess a few are using them for internet operations too.
>> Haven't really been keeping track about what options and resources are
>> out there for managing them... Been seeing more claims of malware,
>> intrusions, et al., and wondering if any professionals are actually
>> dealing with them in some systematic way with useful management and
>> recovery tools, or is it largely still the same "so and so head of
>> <some creative and not terribly technical department with lots of
>> discretionary budget> wanted em so we're living with them" approach?
>>
>> -R>
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