Re: Off-topic. Macintosh ROI Studies
Re: Off-topic. Macintosh ROI Studies
- Subject: Re: Off-topic. Macintosh ROI Studies
- From: mathew <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:15:33 -0400
i'm sure apple could/would provide you with the information you
need. it's their business to keep their machines in your business.
try contacting their marketing dept. or something.
http://www.apple.com/contact/
-mathew
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 12:30 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 10/13/2003 10:44, "Jeff Handy" <email@hidden> wrote:
Well, lets see...
First off, they would be buying all new computers. 300 or so at what;
$1000 (if they go cheap) for each system. That's $300k. Add to that,
the cost of purchasing all new software for each machine - I can begin
to imagine that cost! You'll have to run those figures yourself. Add
to that, any hardware you'll need to replace. Add to that, REAL
training time for each of your staff. I'd estimate about 20 hours or
so
of real training time would be needed just for Mac users to get good
enough with the new OS. Assuming each Mac has a user, that's 300
people
@ 20 hours each = ~ $300k. I'd say, switching to PC's will cost
around
$1Mil. How's that for a business case??
Don't forget to account for lost time (in $$ of course):
1 - downtime for the actual transition
2 - problem systems (there will be some)
3 - lost productivity during the switch
Plan on #3 taking at least a year to fully recover.
That's just to get you to PC's. That alone would frighten management.
Add to the mix, the ability to Automate, with Applescript, much of
your
workflow. We've done this in our shop (video production). Our team
of
five can do the work of eight to ten because of the workflow
automation!
My two cents...
In addition, they'll have to add more support people, either
retraining you
or hiring new people. Let's not forget that they lose a set of
machines that
was not vulnerable to the MS Hole du jour, so, depending on how their
AV
system(s) are licensed, they have to buy more AV licenses.
While you can replace the AppleScript with VBA (in 90% of cases), if
they
don't have good VBA programmers on staff, they'll have to hire them,
and
then wait while you translate AppleScript workflow into VBA or some
other
language. That of course then requires testing, etc., yadda. You have
to
maintain the code, etc. yadda.
Also, you'll have to go over every single document that you have,
because
there's always manual tweaking when going from Mac to PC and vice
versa.
Nothing is foolproof there. So extra labor. You'll have to deal with
color
matching issues too. Oh, they thought that they could hand a designer
a $300
PC and monitor combo? *Surprise*...nope.
A better question would be...what are their problems with your Macs,
what is
the PC network structure, and what is the Mac structure?
john
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