Just after news that Macs are not the loners they once were in the enterprise market, a few prominent software companies (Parallels being the most well-known) have created the Enterprise Desktop Alliance to promote our favorite platform to organizations everywhere.
So how is the EDA planning to showcase the Mac’s advantages and facilitate their integration into IT departments? For one, the various founding companies offer software that supposedly helps enterprises “achieve the same level of control, security, policy compliance, and services that they currently have with their Windows platforms”. Also, the alliance plans to educate companies through webcasts and seminars.
All in all, this seems like an honest effort to push Mac acceptance in large corporations, which can only be good, especially for Apple-loving employees.
I'm sorry, but does anyone else find it amusing that the best known company promoting the Mac in business is one whose primary application for the Mac is one that allows it to run Windows? The ability to run Windows on a Mac does not make the Mac suitable business purposes - that's a workaround for a fundamental flaw that a Mac is not 100% compatible with the applications/services that businesses use.
When Parallels Desktop is not required to, for example, edit a document stored on a SharePoint server, then we'll talk about accepting the Mac into the corporate environment. In the meantime, however, this is just a pipe dream.