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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly in the company I work for, all our internal applications are web-based, so all a user needs to access them is a device with a web browser. Yes, they use SQL, but on the server, not the client.
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Lucky you.
In tons of companies the inhouse apps are legacies. Some from the turbo Pascal days.
Corporate IT's first rule of platform evaluation is: does it mean more work for me? And it goes on from there. It is a different world and you know it. Hype is meaningless to CIOs. There are companies who have been paying MS for custom support for XP rather than move to Win7. Move to an entirely different platform? OMDB!!
There are companies that offer "support" for BYOD and Apple will get sales there.
They'll get sales in small businesses where Macs have a presence and everything rubs of shrinkwrap.
But big volume, corporate sales? Yes, they have IBM trying to move them. But surface has HP, Dell, and Accenture. And it's not just Surface they have to contend with.
They also have HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Lenovo and their horde of touch enabled laptops and convertibles.
Apple added a new option for users and choice is always good.
But there already was no shortage of choices.
Again, look to Apple server sales.
The iPad Pro will sell enough to bring in money.
(Probably less than Apple TV, though.)
But like the watch and the new catch-up Apple TV it will have a bigger impact on their stock price more than the balance sheet. Or the corporate IT world.
People need to temper expectations.