With or without IT approval, iPads saunter in to the enterprise
There’s a lively thread on Hacker News in response to the The iPad is about to steamroll into the Enterprise story.
While the story is perfectly reasonable, it’s mostly punditry. The resulting Hacker News thread is far more empirical.
Some selections:
iPads and iPhones are easier to support than Blackberry. “It’s more of a pain to support Blackberry. You need a dedicated server. With iOS you just turn on Activesync on your Exchange server, and give your users the DNS name and let them go to town.”
“The senior mgmt at my enterprise workplace are twisting arms in the IT department to get iPads OK’d.”
“The iPad’s introduction into the enterprise is a start that signifies different kinds of devices can be helpful. Desktop virtualization and the cloud probably have a role to play in all this too.”
“The native iPad Cisco IPSec VPN has a much quicker sign-on time than OS X version of the client from Cisco.”
“The iPad has support for enterprise wifi networks and works very well with Exchange. It is about as enterprise-friendly (without being MS) as you can get.”
