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Re: Food for thought...

Posted in 2008

Topics: Java & JDBC Development

Mark Townsend — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

> > So thinking outside of the box means to look for opportunities that > wouldn't regularly exist. Two of such areas are Apple and Sun > Microsystems (JAVA). Apple is slowly integrating in to the business > community. There's some software that allows one to create a windows > VM while under OS X thus making it easier for companies to accept > Apple's hardware and the company's own Window's image for corporate > work. Apple does not own a database and isn't tied to a LAMP model. > Apple did a great job of looking outside the box - but it's not into the business market. They are pretty obviously (and very successfully so far) going after the consumer market. I don't believe Apple are committed to the business market at all. Interesting thing is that they just may make inroads in spite of themselves. Over the last 5 years I have gone from a Windows/Windows environment at work/home, to Windows/Mac, to Windows/Mac+++(a wife and two teenage sons, all on Macs, iPods, iPhones, etc etc), to now a complete Mac/Mac environment. Only one application at work requires a Windows environment (web conferencing via Internet Explorer), and for that I run Fusion.

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Ian Michael Gumby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On Dec 14, 7:26 pm, Mark Townsend <markbtowns...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > So thinking outside of the box means to look for opportunities that > > wouldn't regularly exist. Two of such areas are Apple and Sun > > Microsystems (JAVA).  Apple is slowly integrating in to the business > > community. There's some software that allows one to create a windows > > VM while under OS X thus making it easier for companies to accept > > Apple's hardware and the company's own Window's image for corporate > > work.  Apple does not own a database and isn't tied to a LAMP model. > > Apple did a great job of looking outside the box - but it's not into the >    business market. They are pretty obviously (and very successfully so > far) going after the consumer market. I don't believe Apple are > committed to the business market at all. Interesting thing is that they > just may make inroads in spite of themselves. Over the last 5 years I > have gone from a Windows/Windows environment at work/home, to > Windows/Mac, to Windows/Mac+++(a wife and two teenage sons, all on Macs, > iPods, iPhones, etc etc), to now a complete Mac/Mac environment. Only > one application at work requires a Windows environment (web conferencing > via Internet Explorer), and for  that I run Fusion. Really? You think the "inroads" in to the corporate world isn't intentional? ;-)