On 13/06/2008, at 12:48 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Don Lindsay wrote:
Hello;
There is quite a bit of enterprise support at Apple.
Yes, I hear you. And I know that Apple does do some enterprise
things. It is unusual to hear Steve talk about them, though. And
frankly, there are things we do, like saying "no road maps", that
means the guys in the red ties will always be able to shoot us down.
And as far as Apple marketing to the enterprise, well, let's not go
there.
Could they have inherited the old Burroughs' Sales Prevention Force?
My wife pointed out that "enterprise support" in this context
probably meant a company would be able to buy iPhones with service
for their employees.
cheers - ray
OS X:
Supports home directory encryption with file vault
Supports CAC cards with no additional software
Supports logging into an OS X server, Microsoft Active directory or
both.
Able to be locked down as a corporate desktop.
Pushed shares from corporate OS X Servers.
Pushed applications from corporate OS X Servers.
Pushed updates and OS installation from corporate OS X Servers.
Remote Desktop for troubleshooting of machine remotely.
VPN connectivity.
MS Exchange connectivity, although lamely over IMAP.
OS X Server:
Allows for integration into existing Windows network.
Allows for configuration of Desktop rules
Allows for netbooting
Update caching services for workstations
workgroup manager for managing machines
Can act as a BDC or PDC for windows Active Directory.
Allows sharing of Drives across multiple transport (SMB,
AppleTalk, NFS)
And much more
IPhone:
Version 2.0 of the IPhone software contains connectivity for
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync meaning you can now get your
corporate email on the IPhone from an exchange server, just like
you can with MS Smartphones.
Version 2.0 of the IPhone software contains a Cisco VPN client,
allowing IT people and employees to access their corporate networks
without having to install additional VPN software on their device.
And other corporate enhancements.
Don
On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
It's killing me. One of my favorite jokes for when people ask me
(since I was in the WebObjects group at Apple for a bunch of
years) why Apple is so amazingly dense about WebObjects is this.
Steve Jobs will talk about the enterprise when Pixar is doing a
Star Trek movie.
But he is ruining my joke! I just saw an excerpt of some of the
keynote at WWDC and it looks as though the words "enterprise
support" made it up onto the screen. How the heck did that happen?
Or perhaps this version of "enterprise support" is really
something that has no correspondence to the meaning of those words
as spoken on this planet.
Does anyone know what this means? Apple has a unit with a business
model that allows it to do some kind of enterprise support? This
is just not fitting into my head. Please, if anyone has specifics,
speak up.
mahalo - ray
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