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So I read a fairly interesting article on Apple’s enterprise strategy (or, rather, their lack of it). It reminded me that I really want Apple to put some more effort into their enterprise IT offerings. There’s a few neat things there - Apple Remote Desktop is cool, and it’s good they’re starting to implement policy into Open Directory - but I think it really needs to be fleshed out. Leopard’s going to introduce a lot of new stuff, but I still feel like Microsoft is eating Apple’s lunch in the enterprise. Furthermore, I think that if Apple really seriously put some resources into it and played catchup for a while, they could have pretty much everything MS has in their Exchange and Active Directory products - except I believe Apple’d make it easier to use and manage. I just kinda wish they’d go ahead and do it already. I’m impatient though - it really has taken them a few years to refine their consumer apps (the iLife suite) into something that’s truly a joy for your average home user to use and to get it out under enough noses that people start to realise what the value of all these products are. Maybe it’ll be the same with the enterprise stuff, though I do still see a lot missing there.
In other news, I saw the the most awesomest show I’ve seen in quite some time the other night - highly recommended if they’re in your area, even if you don’t really do the subject matter of their music (it’s based on MegaMan, and I never was into it but the show was still freakin’ awesome). Also, congratulations to Pedro and his new arrival!