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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by phs318u on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:05PM (#13322539)
> there is no wonder in my mind as to why the vast, vast majority of businesses use Windows and not Mac.

Well, I can't speak to most businesses but every corporate I've worked at in the last few years has been characterised by an SOE that involves strangely spec'd machines eg. only 4GB RAM but 1TB HDD which is 95% empty but thrashes nicely when swapping (just running browser with a few tabs, office and outlook). It will also most likely be an i7 that never gets to top out, meanwhile the underwhelming wifi infrastructure (not PC specific) means boot times (due to profile and policy replication) are in the order of minutes. Oh, and regardless of how old they are they never get upgraded (eg extra RAM, switch to SSD) because the bureaucracy disincentivises doing so.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by WayneBro on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:09AM (#13344458)
That's a bit of a non-sequitur. I understand corporations order the wrong configuration all the time...

At least they have a configuration to choose from! If they shopped Apple, they'd get 3 choices: Cheap overpriced crap that they have no control over, overpriced crap that they have no control over and Expensive overpriced crap that they have no control over. But hey, it would be shiny! They'd then just have to build their own infrastructure to manage their fleet of Macs like Google did because nobody else builds stuff like that for Macs since nobody uses them in business.

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Re:Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux? by spronkey on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:35PM (#13322760)
Corporates are a different fish to SMEs though. Every SME I've seen in the last few years has at least some hardware that's been recycled by upgrading.
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