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Please list enterprise-class software titles that are Windows only and impeding a corporate IT switch. I'm looking for some incumbents to slay. :-)

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If someone came up with a way of doing large scale fleet management of Mac devices (software installs, updates, rights management et al) in a vaugley similar way to the way Windows env (eg point and click) they'd make an absolutely fortune.

Apple does have tools for imaging/managing Macs - a combination of Profile Manager and Remote Desktop.

Also, if you have system administrators for OS X machines who need a point-and-click interface for everything, you need to take another look at your hiring practices.

Edit: oh and for the initial imaging you need to use NetInstall and System Image Utility, but they're not separate products still.

Apple doesn't sell any hardware that you can put in your data center, so you can't run those tools by most definitions of Enterprise Grade.

Sure they do, just throw in some Mac Pros or Minis in rackmount enclosures :-p

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/adapters/index.html

There is a datacenter in Las Vegas with a great number of rack mounted MacMini's.

I would imagine even the new mac pro's can even be rack mounted if necessary.

MS Project

SQL Server (and client tools). Sharepoint. Active Directory.

Serious question, since I'm decades out of date with corporate IT:

Are these considered problems or solutions? AD solved problems for the last company I was at, but only for the minority of machines running Windows.

For the majority of businesses that are running all Windows computers? Yes, these are solutions. Otherwise they wouldn't be billion dollar businesses for Microsoft.

My employer just switched to an Office 365 solution for Sharepoint (Sites), Email, Word, Excel, etc. It runs on anything with a web browser. No Windows required.

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