NSW Traffic Authority Switches to Mac

theres no such thing as too many macs :cool:

I bet this means new PowerBooks next tuesday :p

This obviously points to new 3ghz powermacs..... :rolleyes:

ComputerWorld.com.au reports that the New South Wales Traffic Authority will be switching to Macs.

According to the article, the agency will deploy 1200 Apple G4 iMacs across 140 registry offices.



The switch appears to be away from Windows/Intel boxes. Apple has recently been attempting to increase their enterprise sales, and this may represent one of the early successes.

A nice win for Apple Australia. Now if they would look at the bloody exchange rate and do something nice for us all -> at least they got the emac costing right but why should we suffer over inflated prices on most other things, ESPECIALLY software. Glad to see that got hammered by the Barrow in the Australian on Tuesday. Damn right.

Apple is actually SELLING computers now... in bulk! This can't be bad.
-Kevin

Pretty ironic they are switching to Macs to establish OpenSource... As those who have been around back then will remember, Apple was most hated [tm] company among the OSS crowd back in the days of System 7.x.

Tempora mutantur - in 15 years, MS will be the provider of best of breed office apps for Linux :D

Moving to open-source eh? No-one sells more Macs than Microsoft. :D

Really Good News!!

I hope this starts a major trend away from Wintel---towards Macs. I hope the rumor of FedEx switching to Macs is also true.

The world would be a better place if more companies used Macs! I for one would enjoy going to work a lot more ;)

As a New South Welshman, I can tell you this is pretty cool.

Our Traffic Authority Offices are ugly places - I think iMacs all round the office will be a terrific look !!

They'll be able to spin the screens around to show you your mug shot on your license before they print it.

This is a pretty impressive enterprise account to get within Australia. Other Govt offices will have to begin to ask questions?

Good stuff

Interesting. The application mix running on those desktops is the kind that Linux vendors dream about, and the iMac + OS X solution was still able to compete on price.

That's a nice little case study for when naysayers start in about how Apple machines aren't suitable for business use.