Apple Grabs Enterprise Tail

[Mac Reporter]

Apple Computer is counting on some advancements to its next-generation operating system to win it more space in the enterprise.

While the company has made great strides in breaking out of its desktop shell (can you say supercomputing powerhouse?), Apple said it is riding the momentum of its Mac OS X 10.3x "Panther" server operating system and adding 200 features to the industrial version of its Mac OS X 10.4x, code-named "Tiger."

During his keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) here, CEO Steve Jobs also pointed out that Apple's developer base was as strong as ever, with 12 million OS X users (half of Apple's install base) now using Mac OS X and upwards of 12,000 native applications being built for Panther alone.

Apple will work with developers in the coming months to bring Mac OS Tiger to market in the first half of 2005. Both the client and enterprise versions of Tiger will natively run 64-bit programs that use 16 exabytes of virtual memory.

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