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\nWASHINGTON\u2014What would you say if you heard the U.S. Army has four video surveillance installations that are based on Apple\u2019s OSX operating system, and use Apple servers? Or that a large government entity had just initiated an all-Apple installation?<\/p>\n
The government doesn\u2019t use Apple, does it?<\/p>\n
Chris Gettings, CEO and president of VideoNEXT, a video management software manufacturer, is betting the government does, and it will. The VideoNEXT software is tuned for the Red Hat Linux and Apple operating environments, along with Windows, so that a user can go with both Red Hat\u2019s operating system or Apple\u2019s, in addition to Windows.<\/p>\n
Gettings said Apple and Unix\/Linux are attractive to government customers because of reliability and ease of use. \u201cIt just runs,\u201d he said of the Apple platform. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to have some of the memory-leak issues that seem to plague different versions of the Windows systems. And mission-critical customers appreciate that.\u201d And while Red Hat is a Unix-like platform with its Linux, \u201cwith Apple they couple the Unix reliability with a world-class user interface. That\u2019s the stumbling block on Red Hat. It\u2019s a little bit complicated … The user interface for Apple is marvelous. It\u2019s so easy to use and intuitive. It\u2019s the hallmark of the platform.\u201d<\/p>\n