Friday, December 18, 2015

Macbook-revolution at IBM when the staff put out the PC – “Everyone is happy” – IDG.se

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IBM and Apple now has a major collaboration to achieve corporate market.

A very concrete result of this collaboration is now visible in among the staff at IBM. The employees of the company that once started the PC boom now have increasingly begun to replace their computers.

 

 And Apple, which long had little impact seriously on the business market, now has a heavy customer of the IT giant. Since June, the IBM employees might possibly choose between PC, Macbook Pro or Macbook Air when it was time to update their computer.

 
Also read: IBM will help to breathe life into the Power processor

And it seems to be great interest in Apple stuff very. IBM’s Communications Director Karen Davis tells Computerworld that the long term plan is that up to 200,000 Macs will be rolled out to employees in the long term.

 

 How it looks with the distribution pc / mac in Swedish IBM in the current situation is difficult to give an exact figure, according to Communications Director Lennart Malm. But he confirms that the craving for Apple is great.

 

 - Yes, we purchase a large quantity. All internal are excited and positive about the initiative, he says, and explains the arrangement:

 

 - When replacing the computer must all choose what they want. But there is no forced change but some choose to remain and some choose to change.

 
How is it linked to your recently announced collaboration with Apple?

 - That there is securely coupled in any way. It is important to broaden understanding in order to spread knowledge.

Read also: Even more built-in security – now in PCs from Lenovo, Dell and Toshiba

 
But it is not the stated aim of replacing all computers to Mac?

 - No, many choose as I said to remain. It is up to each individual to choose what you are most comfortable with.

 

 Until now, the company’s computers as clearly provided by Lenovo, which bought IBM’s PC unit for eleven years ago.

 
How happy is Lenovo of this initiative?

 - For those who want to run PC is still the Lenovo applicable.

 

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