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I’m Just a Consumer Within the Big Enterprise
By chris dalby | December 19, 2007
There has been a huge amount of talk recently about enteprise software, misunderstanding enterprise software, enterprise software not sexy and trumped by James Governor’s post - the best thing I’ve read all year.
Dennis Howlett nails one majorly improtant factor:
Last week in Paris, some 2,000 tech innovators gathered for LeWeb3. The speaker list reads like the great and the good from the innovation side of the tech house. A good 80% were carrying MacBook Pros. There wasn’t a PowerPoint to be seen.
Microsoft must undoubtedly be aware of the huge move by all the cool kids to using Mac Book Pro, iPhone and/or iTouch. iw00t! The thing is, like it or hate it, video and webcams is everything to do with what is cool right now. The quality of the built in we3bcam on the MBP beats any windows web cam i have seen. From a consumers point of view, or an increasingly geographically dispersed enterprise user dangling on the end of a vpn and remote access, if it is meant to work with myiPhone or iTouch, cool. Bring it on.
In the mean time, show me where you can buy a Zune in the UK or Europe, and that’ll be the reason why I’ve never had my hands on one. This brings me to a point that I have been making for some time now. Everyone, from one man bands and SMB want enterprise features, but with a consumer attitude. It just so happens that the MBP delivers that.
The need for Mac and Windows networking support and integration is sure to be a growing factor over the next year. I’m gladI have a good support guy for that.
Topics: Culture, Tech Watch |
December 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am
And it is for reasons like this that the likes of IBM are being pushed on the need for Mac versions of their products.
To be fair IBM are better than some, they have Mac & Linux versions of both the Lotus Notes and Sametime clients, but they (currently) lack the focus on the developer side.