Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Cost of Ownership Data
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:22:35 -0600
Mr. Lemson:
I don't have an "official" report available, but I can tell you my
facility elected to deploy 15 Mac Minis at a cost of $555.00 per
system instead of purchasing Windows based machines at a cost of
$1,200 per comparable system. The minis allowed me to comply with my
agency's requirement to operate Windows OS which I did with bootcamp
as well as continue to utilize existing videos, keyboards, and mouse
(s) or perhaps mice. And this only demonstrates the costs savings
regarding the system itself. I haven't reported the savings by not
having to dump working displays in a land fill because I replaced
them with a "package" deal that almost always includes a display nor
have I reported the savings of not having to remove viruses or other
problems on any of these minis. Although you could take this
information and create charts, graphs, etc to argue your case, the
scale of deployment is probably too small to serve your needs but I
am willing to share what information I have with you, just email me
directly.
P/S. Of course everything in this email is my opinion and does not
represent the opinion or procedures of the agency for which I am
employed.
-----tom
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On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:51 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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