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Will Apple Be Dragged Kicking and Screaming to the Business Market?

Pk,

I am a programmer. I've done programming on many platforms, but have the longest run on windows. That said, I use a MacBook (which replaced a powerbook before it) every day now, even though I am doing consulting for a windows business. XCode is easy enough to use for C and C++ work, but not as good as Visual Studio. On the other hand, for Objective C, it's an absolute dream, better than Visual Basic or C# environments. That's my opinion. Remember, Objective C came from the NeXT boxes, and was designed for enterprise applications.

I've also done some Java work, but don't use XCode for that. I use Eclipse, which doesn't seem to run as well on a mac as on windows, but it is the same environment. I've recently done Ruby on Rails work, for which the Mac is the development platform of choice.

Oh, and a friend of mine that works for a network security research company says his shop is all Macs for developer machines (Linux servers, though).