Winn's TCO

http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/09/mad-as-hell-finale-recommen
dations-and.html

Yeah, it's a blog, but so what. It's still information.


from a poster;

To the original poster:

I use a windows machine at home and work, and am primarily a network
administrator and product trainer (for end users, staff and VARs) for my
company. We designed and built the worlds first integrated file level
and BareMetal multiplatform Disk-to-Disk backup solution, and have been
selling that product in record numbers to primarily Windows firms for
more than 3 years.

Because we are, at some level, a security company, and contantly work in
Windows, Linux, and other environments (25+ supported OS platforms) I
thouhgt it would be simply rediculous to migrate to a mac environment.

After reading ALL of Winn's articles, over the last several months, I
became convinced it was possible for basically everyone other than our
programming team and IT department to switch to macs. In fact, 2 of our
support engineers have Powerbooks on their desks next to their PCs now.

The results are astounding. These 2 people are closing more cases,
handling more simultaneous tasks, and having far less downtime than any
of our other users. Their ability to support our customers (who are
mostly IT departments, not dumb users) is not impacted at all.

After applying Winn's spread*** to our needs (which are extensive) and
including some other calculations for needs including system imaging,
software migration (of our own binaries), we put the cost of giving our
users Mac notebooks over PC notebooks to be more than a $800 per year
savings!

More over, once I started chatting it up with the developers, we
determined it would take only a few weeks to port our software over to a
Mac OS X server instead of a Linux box, and we could then eliminate
nearly $100,000 per year in i386 hardware testing and design. We could
sell X Servers with our software pre-installed, for a savings of about
20% per unit, and at the same time cut our support calls nearly in half
regarding client system failure.

Simple enough to say, even with our complex, multiplatform environment,
Apple offers us ever feature we could want or need. Even the programmers
can switch over (something I though was not possible) Only some of our
marketing and sales people would not be able to switch.

One more thing to note: Once switching to Mac, we could drop having from
2 T1 connections back to a single T1 since a lot of our bandwidth would
no longer be used by tuesday patches, virus updates, spyware updates,
and spam. We'd also solve a lot of our IT headaches revolving around how
to provide user security with servers at only one of our 2 sites.

Starting from now, if the plan were approved (it has yet to be discussed
with upper management) I estimate we could save approxamately $64,000
per year on hard costs, and more than $100,000 per year in man hours and
labor to cover our 80 users. initial costs for the switch would be paid
off in less than 18 months.

Based on Winn's numbers this would save us almost double what I have
quoted, but we would still require some of the "unnessessary" security
apps for Mac systems, and since most of our users are mobile, we have
other headaches as well, not to mention some proprietary software to
port internally.

I've used Mac systems since the Lisa, and have owned 13 in my time. I
currently do not own one due to "cost of ownership" This will be
changing VERY soon!

By Anonymous, at 9/29/2005 12:26:36 PM

--
Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while
expecting that he will get nothing in return!"
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