Apple lets partners hit up enterprise

Another Apple reseller that has joined the consultant network, Key Options Technology technical director David Colville said the move would assist what he argued is the vendor's increasing openness.

"Apple's traditional structure was that they were rather closed off; for ten years or so they were rather an insular solution," he said. "But a lot the integration we are doing these days is putting Macs into Active Directory environments, putting Macs into Novell environments. Vendors like Novell are also coming to the party... and there are a bunch of standards that traditional enterprise customers are familiar with. The other place we have being doing a lot of stuff with enterprise is in with multimedia and digital education content delivery. It is a vehicle we are talking more and more with customers at the moment."

The Apple Consultant Network website lists only three enterprise-focussed partners in total - Key Options Technology, Digistor and Computers Now. At least one of these providers has offices in Victoria, NSW, the ACT and Queensland respectively.

However, there are no enterprise-focussed partners in Tasmania, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.