[Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
[Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- From: Sean Lemson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:51:58 -0700
At the Mac Networkers Retreat last year, I posed the following
question to the sound of crickets:
We do a lot of talking as Mac admins about how much more it costs an
organization to operate in a Windows environment than a Mac
environment. I intuitively know this because throughout my 20+ year
Mac career, every place I've ever worked that has begun bringing
Windows into the environment has doubled its staff size. Patch
Tuesday can cause quite a stir here, while I and my other Mac admins
sip coffee and get on with our days. There's an entire committee
analyzing Vista. I can't imagine that any such committee will be
necessary with Leopard.
So my question is, has *anyone* seen or commissioned any kind of
recent (OS X days) report of a Mac's cost of ownership vs. Windows?
Management speaks in the form of bar charts, pie graphs, etc. If I'm
to make any attempt to slow the migration to Windows here, I need
hard numbers and there are political obstacles to getting them here
so I'm wondering if anyone "out there" can help.
Thanks,
Sean Lemson
LLNL
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