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

jeff thorstad(thorstadj[at]macconnect.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:08:00 -0500

> 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
>
>There is a learning curve to going to one platform or another, but a great
>deal of the knowledge is transferable between them...despite the OS holy
>wars...all computer systems are more alike than not.

Here are some websites with studies done about supporting Win and Mac at
the same time. These do have some hard figures, I'm a little surprised
that some couldn't find any.

http://www2.apple.com/whymac/ggstudy/default.html
http://www.madmansdream.com/fairytales/Studies/StudiesTOC.html
http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/
http://www.macwindows.com/

This topic is getting a little close to the "holy war", which we don't
want on this particular list. Lets keep it calm, please.

Jeff T
thorstadj@macconnect.com

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