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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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February 26, 2004

Apple in the Enterprise

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Alex Salkever on Apple's corporate strategy:

Where Apple truly needs to step up is in the areas of technical support and understanding the needs of big enterprises. While it has a long history of providing customer support for individuals and small businesses, Apple has relatively little experience in the past decade supporting midsize and large corporations, vs. that of its business-computing rivals.

Apple could begin to address this problem by extending hardware-service guarantees on its servers beyond what it has now, which is industry-standard or slightly better. That's not enough to win over skeptics and make them new customers, particularly when you're talking about data-storage hardware and software.

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