Not so long ago, we commented that the partnership between Apple and IBM (focused on the corporate market) has borne new fruit: International Business Machines employees can now use Macs, something unthinkable in the distant past.
When we talk about it, we report that IBM would already have about 15,000 active Macs running through its BYOD program (bring your own device(ie bring your own equipment to work), but expect the number to reach 50,000 before the end of this year.
For according to an internal video in which we see Jeff Smith (director of informatics, or chief information officer speaking to IBM employees, that number can actually triple or even quadruple to 150,000 / 200,000 Macs.
From what we saw, Smith talked to Niall O'Connor (Apple's chief information officer) about the issue, asking him to be able to offer Macs at the same price that other PC makers usually offer to IBM. O'Connor would have been reluctant at first, but when Smith said that IBM would be Apple's largest corporate customer, purchasing up to eight times more Macs than Ma's then largest corporate customer today, O'Connor promptly stumbled upon everything.
If the plan comes to fruition, between 50-75% of IBM employees will exchange their current Lenovo ThinkPads for MacBooks. Not bad
(via MacRumors)
