IBM denies a ‘mass migration’ to the Mac
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 18, 2008 at 11:37am
Earlier this week it was reported that IBM’s Research Information Services has launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform. However, now the Big Blue is denying this.
An IBM spokesperson today denied published reports of what he termed “mass migration” to Macs at his company, claiming the only point of the test is to try to make IBM software products run well on Mac OS, reports BetaNews.
The IBM spokesperson today corroborated some of the information in the original Roughly Drafted article, explaining that the pilot started among about 25 IBM researchers, that about 50 are involved right now, and that the number might grow to as many as 200 by the end of this year.
“But it is a research project to test and harden our applications, to find out what problems other people might encounter [in running them on Macs],” he told BetaNews.
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