VIRTUALISATION is the way to support LEGACY stuff that no one can bear to ditch.Īpple are not in the “enterprise” because Apple do not sell stationery. Fortunately I live in the 21st century so I do not need to run proprietry legacy apps that locked in your data. There as also MANY emus for the older OS’s. Yes, it’s an OPTION.Īs for long term support I understand I could run OS9 apps in a VM on my PowerBook running OS X. Get Over It and stop knocking Apple for giving you the OPTION to update. Our patch management cycle is quarterly and someone, somewhere, is always patching and something, somewhere, is always breaking. I work in a large corp (80,000 desktops, 2000 servers - all windows) and let me tell you I would rather UPGRADE than patch – break -patch patch – break – patch – patch – patch – break – patch – patch – patch – patch – patch – break – patch … ad infinitum It is my opinion that Apple evolves/updates their OS faster than MS with less advese affects to their users so Apple does come out with a lot more updates than MS unless you count security patches as updates then that would be MS upgrading their OS a lot faster than MacOSX. There are very few negative reactions from the 10.3.9 update and most of the negative reactions come from people who don’t even own a Mac. MacOSX is not the same as Windows.Īs we have seen on OSNews articles on SP2 some people want it and some don’t overall it seems 50/50 with some people not wanting SP2 anywhere near their machine. ”Īctually JCS what you are referring to is that corporations don’t like to constantly update Windows. XP hasn’t remained static at all (.NET, DX9, new firewall), but major updates are intentionally spaced out – along with the long term support that Apple has NEVER provided. That’s at least one of the reasons Apple has essentially zero presence in the corporate market.

“Corporations do not generally like having to constantly update.

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