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Survey: Vista Adoption Weakens as IT Pros Eye Apple
7/29/2008
Despite those troubles, Rob Meinhardt, cofounder and CEO of KACE, believes that IT is moving more toward managing a heterogeneous desktop environment, even to the point of giving employees their choice of computer to use.
"I don't think in the future you are going to see homogeneity on the Windows front anymore," Meinhardt said. "You are going to see people running XP side-by-side with Vista. Now that's also true of cross-platform to non-Windows platforms. You are going to see more companies running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP side-by-side with Macintosh."
KACE is a case in point, since about 50 percent of its computers are Macs, Meinhardt explained. KACE's "bias" in sponsoring the survey is that it advocates the use of its KBOX product to help IT administrators manage such heterogeneous environments. The product competes with Microsoft's Systems Management Server, which can only handle Windows environments, according to Meinhardt.
The survey results are one thing, but KACE also has an alternative method for estimating OS adoption. KACE customers can opt-in to a survey through the company's KBOX management product and share what operating systems they use. Meinhardt says that option has created "several hundred thousands of data points" on OS use.
"At the very high level, XP represent 85 percent of that pool," he said of this alternative KACE poll. "Vista is at about one percent, and Macintosh is at about four percent." Meinhardt concluded that "there is relatively low Vista adoption in the enterprise and indeed Apple is actually ahead of Vista in these businesses."
Those interested in seeing the full results of KACE's June 2008 survey can get a free copy (PDF) here.
Kurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc. You can contact Kurt at kmackie@1105media.com.
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