Salesforce to become an all-Mac shop

Customer relationship management software shop Salesforce's contract with Dell is about to run out, and the company has decided not to renew it. Instead, the company will be outfitting everyone one of their 4,000 employees with a brand new Macintosh, according to an anonymous tipster cited by Alex Curylo. The tipster explains:

And why, you ask, Security! The resources it takes to defend against all the stuff the baddies throw at a PC, it's just cheaper/easier to pay a few bucks more for a Mac and not have any of those issues.

While that excuse makes some rational sense, I'm thinking there's also some regional chauvinism at work with Salesforce's earlier move to publicly side with Google — in other words, score another point for Team Valley against Team Redmond. (Photo by Andrew)

1:40 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Jackson West
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colintoal at 02:20 PM on 04/25/08
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I smell a revenue swap deal.
sample032 at 02:24 PM on 04/25/08
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Saying macs are more secure than PCs is like saying a rural, regional convenience store is more secure than a quikstop in Oakland.
CaliforniaCajun at 02:29 PM on 04/25/08
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Macs are significantly tougher to break into. There's virtually no malware on Mac OS X. If I were an IT person, I'd take a serious look at them.
macbeach at 02:31 PM on 04/25/08
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OK, from now on when I want to point out the advantages of dumping Windows I'll just mock people who live near Oakland instead.

Thanks.
franky at 03:56 PM on 04/25/08
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@CaliforniaCajun: CC IT People will start to _care_ when the Mac market share hits 10%. Until then... you want to be a snob, enjoy your insurance coverage.

Disclosure: I'm on Mac, but no one in our team is focused on security on Mac so far. It actually is cheaper to check and correct the few cases of abuse on the Mac platform than really bother about security on Mac so far.

(Not allowed to disclose my employer, but think _black_)
dalejo at 04:26 PM on 04/25/08
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@CaliforniaCajun: If you've ever worked in a unix company, you'll know your statement is not true.

A lack of virii does not make a system secure. Besides, if Mac ever gets any real market share, those systems will get pwned too because it will actually be worth while to the groups who want more bots.
dvhw at 05:46 PM on 04/25/08
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Presumably this is part of a deal whereby salesforce.com has some sort of special app in the next iPhone release to make it "busness ready"
matto at 06:36 PM on 04/25/08
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@franky: You work for the Obama campaign?
GenXHacker at 05:20 PM on 04/27/08
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Moving to the Mac is potentially more bark than bite: Mac:Office and Windows XP run very well on the Mac and is not uncommon in enterprise accounts. So the real loser here may be Dell and Dell alone.