IBM To Launch Services To Help Businesses Worldwide To Switch To Apple -- August 8, 2015

The big non-Bakken story last week was the announcement that IBM was switching its enterprise over to Apple computers. That's a huge story but based on stories coming out of Wall Street with regard to Apple, it sounds like a lot of folks don't understand how big the story is.

Maybe this will help. Macrumors is reporting that IBM has launched a new service to deploy Macs to businesses around the world.

IBM today announced the launch of a new service that will allow large companies to easily incorporate Mac computers into their preexisting corporate infrastructure. The service, being deployed by IBM's MobileFirst Managed Mobility Services unit, will be aimed at companies around the world and not just based in the United States.

Thanks to the MobileFirst partnership with Apple that has brought about multiple waves of enterprise-focused apps as the company has increased its own usage of Macs, IBM saw an opportunity to commercialize its expertise in "enterprise deployment" of Macs in the workplace.

This may simply be one of the biggest "non-merger" mergers in the history of IT. 

Imagine how big this story would be if it were to be a cover story for BloombergBusiness.