Businesses Going Mac

Major Bank Switches from PC to Mac

Japan's Aozora Bank Ltd. is planning to do something once unheard of in the business world: switch nearly all of its 2,300 desktop personal computers to Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh computers. Most companies use PCs that run on some version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. But in a multi-year effort to replace its outdated mishmash of computers -- most running older versions of Windows -- Aozora is forsaking the standard PC," Nick Wingfield reports for The Wall Street Journal. "A third of the company's computers already are Macs -- including sleek iMac computers that combine a screen and hard drive in one unit with a camera perched atop that allows employees to videoconference. Within a few months, Aozora expects about 90% of its machines will be Macs."
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Largest automobile processing company in North America dumps Windows PCs for Apple Macs

"It's little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz’s crisp white shirt that signal the sea change in the works at Auto Warehousing Co.Over the next 60 days, AWC will begin systematically pulling the plug on all Windows-based PCs in its cavernous auto processing shop and power up Macs to execute virtually all of its revenue-generating operations. The move comes on the heels of a quiet wholesale replacement of Windows-based servers for data storage and Web operations, which are now running on Apple Inc.’s Xserve RAID machines," Julia King reports for Computerworld.
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University to dump all Windows PCs, replace with Apple Macs

Wilkes University, a Pennsylvania institution, announced today that it plans to get rid of all its Windows-based computers in the next three years and replace them with Macs," Dan Carnevale writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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SMU Cox School of Business dumps PCs for Apple Macs

The SMU Cox School of Business is officially making the switch from PCs to Macs. More than 30 classroom podiums have been retrofitted with Mac minis, while around 100 lab computers have iMacs. All platforms dual-boot both Windows XP and Mac OS X Tiger.