Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- From: Bill Vlahos <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:44:37 -0700
When I try to talk to Windows folks on this subject no matter what
evidence I provide they simply refuse to believe it. They will often
rationalize it by saying it doesn't matter but deep down I don't
think they want to believe it so they don't.
Bill Vlahos
IT Manager, AeroVironment, Inc.
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On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Sean Lemson wrote:
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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