Fleet hopes to be the MDM provider for the AI Era
Fleet, the independent, open-source, multi-platform MDM service, recently announced its new partner program for VARs and MSPs serving enterprise customers and recruited MobileIron co-founder Suresh Batchu to serve on the company’s board. With those moves in mind, I caught up with company CEO Mike McNeil to find out more about the Fleet’s plans. Given the company’s roots in open source, working with partners is a good way to enable it to support a variety of enterprise needs, with resellers and MSPs playing an active role in customizing the core solution for those requirements. Fleet and the Mac Fleet is just as happy managing Macs as it is Linux systems and integrates well with existing tools — as long as they support open standards and APIs. This gives it a unique insight into Apple device adoption in the enterprise. McNeil confirmed that both Apple and Linux systems are seeing rapid increases in deployment. “The new MacBook Neo is now cheaper than comparable PCs, so Apple adoption is