RE: [WinMac] Studies on cost of Macs/PCs in offices???
John Nurick(j.nurick[at]dial.pipex.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:37:25 +0100
Joe Dobrowolski wrote
> 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.
I recently looked into this a bit. Didn't find any hard
statistics and no longer expect to find any that are both
hard and useful, because:
* every office is different
* all statistics are obsolete (e.g comparing Win3.x and MacOS
7.x, when we'll be using Win 9x/NT and MacOS 8.x).
Logically, installing and supporting MacOS as well as one or
two flavours of Windows must be more expensive and
troublesome than just supporting Windows. In practice, it is
possible that Mac users need so much less support than
Windows users that the saving in this regard will outweigh
the extra costs of installing and supporting the Macs in the
first place.
There are also issues concerning sharing documents, custom
apps and data between Macs and PCs. These range from small
(in most of MS Office except data access) to insuperable (in
some specialist areas), and their relative importance depends
enormously on what your office needs to do: there is no
alternative to analysing your needs, investigating how the
Mac and PC software works together and estimating any costs
of achieving this against any identified benefits of having
Macs.
Hope this helps.
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