Re: [WinMac] Studies on cost of Macs/PCs in offices???

Bill Chapman(billc[at]sarc.msstate.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:00:48 GMT+6

Joe:

I can't agree with your premise at all. The systems support for
Mac's and PC's takes almost twice as much knowledge as either
platform, alone. It has gotten better with MacOS 8, but just the
nomenclature differences cause substantial re-learn time when going
from one platform to the other.

Consider such things as telnet vs mcsamson, ftp vs fetch, ethertalk
vs Ethernet, Open Transport vs ????, extensions vs device drivers,
etc., etc.

Our university has two complete staffs to support the two different
platforms.

--Bill

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:06:40 -0700
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>
> From: Joe Dobrowolski <Joe@AMandA.com>
> Subject: [WinMac] Studies on cost of Macs/PCs in offices???
> Reply-to: "The Windows-MacOS cooperation list"
> <winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu>

> I am looking for some studies that show the cost of maintaining Macs
> versus PCs in offices. I am trying to convince some managers that
> that a cross-platform office is not more expensive to maintain than
> a PC-only office.
>
> Thanks,
> -Joe
>
> -------------------------------
> Joe Dobrowolski, Systems Administrator
> Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.
>
> The views expressed, do not necessarily
> reflect the views of AM+A
>
> An Apple a day keeps the PC woes away
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