Macinprise

This is a good one and valid point.

Queue evil laughter...

QuickSynergy is a graphical interface (GUI) for easily configuring Synergy2, an application that allows the user to share his mouse and keyboard between two or more computers.

QuickSynergy seemed to be the most stable of the Synergy2-based (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) UIs for Mac. Synergy allows you to share one keyboard and mouse with multiple computers. Imagine dropping your laptop down next to your desktop computer and sharing a keyboard and mouse between them simply by dragging your mouse to the edge of your screen and having the mouse appear on the laptop and vice versa. It also supports a shared clipboard (text only). It does not support synchronized screen savers and single login unlock. Although this is probably for the better for security reasons.

And speaking of security, I would only recommend running this software within trusted networks. This was a little too easy to setup and I suspect it is easily hackable. I would not recommend running this all the time over an untrusted wi-fi network.

I tried SynergyKM (http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/) but it did not work for me. Teleport (http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport/) is another option, but is Mac only. Synergy is truly multi-platform supporting Linux and Windows in addition to Mac. This would allow you to drop down your Mac laptop next to your Windows desktop and do the same kind of keyboard sharing.

.. and that is the slogan that will draw 20 million customers lemmings off the cliff.

Larry's like, Look, the Borg has never been out ahead on anything. The difference is, they used to be able to catch up. They've always been copiers. That's been their business model from the start. Let others go out and create a market, then copy what they've done, sell it for less, and crush them. They got into the OS business by stealing DOS from someone else. They created Windows by stealing Apple's ideas. They got into desktop apps by copying Lotus and WordPerfect and then having the bright idea to bundle all the stuff into one cheapo suite. They pulled the trick off again with Internet Explorer versus Netscape, in the late 90s -- that was the last time they were able to let someone get out ahead of them and then pivot and copy and give it away free and take them over. By the end of the 90s they had broken through 50% market share in browsers, and that was it for Netscape.

But what happened after that? This is what we were wondering. Larry says two things happened. One, the Borg got slower. They got big and fat and bureaucratic. Two, everyone else got faster. Look at Google. They got so big so quickly that there was no way for the Borg to claw them back. Same for all these other Web businesses. Amazon, Ebay, Skype, Facebook, Twitter. They came out of nowhere, and what they were doing was free, so the Borg couldn't just do a crappy knockoff and sell it for less. They were up against free -- the Web companies were using their own strategy against them.

About once every other week, FSJ blogs something insightful. This time around, I rather liked his thoughts on Microsoft's inability to get traction in new markets these days. FSJ, cites cloud computing, search, music, etc. I think the best thing for Microsoft is to have a big fall, then come back a leaner, smarter, and less evil entity - kinda like IBM. (Remember when we hated them?)

While your experiences with Macs in the enterprise may vary, the more entrenched your organization is with Microsoft’s enterprise products, the harder your integration will be. While Microsoft is showing signs of realizing people use browsers other than Internet Explorer, making its products fully accessible by non-Microsoft operating systems is going to take a sea change within the company that could take years to even get started.

Very soon, I'll be writing my own "Macs in the Enterprise" story. I'm currently exploring the use of Sharepoint at work in a mixed Mac-Windows environment. Also, depending on the level of collaboration required, OmniGraffle (Pro) is a good drop-in replacement for Visio.

First of all, NO, it won't. Second, I think I'll wait a couple more weeks before the upgrade. Shame on Apple for what I can only assume amounts to taking their eye off the ball. Oh, and BTW. Steve O', Java is here to stay. You are making a mistake in giving it second class standing.