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

Wed Apr 20 18:02:16 PDT 2011

A friend who works at Google told me (sotto voce) that since the China incident 
one has to get special permission to install a Windows machine there.  Macs are 
standard.  And this was on the East coast!  Sounds incredible, but he's well 
placed to know.

It's not true everywhere, of course.  (Not yet.)  My current employer is rife 
with people who think computer means Windows, and only a west-coast developer 
group (recently acquired) was permitted to keep their Macs, and then only when 
they threatened to quit in a bloc.  Yet even at HQ (in New Jersey) there is an 
"iPhone project", albeit in a pilot phase.  The executives are bringing their 
iPhones and iPads to work and telling the IT people to shut up and get on with 
it.  It was ever thus, it just wasn't Apple before.

When Steve Jobs does eventually ... have a successor, I intend to buy heavily on 
the panic.  Just by regression to the mean his successor is bound not to hate 
"enterprise" per se nearly so much, and there is a lot of room to grow in terms 
of market share.  There always was, but now they have shown how it might happen.