Re: 8 Money Reasons Why Macs Win the cost battle
- From: Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:08:48 GMT
In article <46b6624b$0$30620$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim wrote:
From the CIO site.
http://tinyurl.com/2cvwvq
Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS
I like this section....
"A couple of years back, Tayco, one of the world's largest makers of
office furniture, reached similar conclusions upon first pricing Mac
servers for use on its network.
"The initial hardware costs were pretty much the same as for Windows
PCs. But Macintosh has turned out to be much more cost-effective, due
partly to its scalability," according to Przemek (pronounced "Chemek")
Wozniak, IT manager of the Toronto, Ontario-based manufacturing firm.
Tayco is currently running three Apple X servers, 15 Windows servers
and two IBM iSeries midrange computers on its back-end infrastructure.
Meanwhile, all but 15 of the company's desktop PCs are running Windows.
Ultimately, though, the IT manager eyes replacing most of the
remaining Windows servers and all of the desktops with Macs. He's also
considering swapping out the two iSeries, which are running Lotus
Notes mail and calendaring applications,with Apple's upcoming OS X
version 10.5?code-named "Leopard"?which is slated to come with its own
open-source versions.
Much of Tayco's reason for switching to Macs boils down to hardware
costs. New IBM iSeries servers go for $100,000 and up, according to
Wozniak. He also finds IBM PC servers consume more space in the data
center than Xserves, while adding extra costs for rack hardware. "You
can only fit 10 of them in one rack, versus 42 in a rack for Xserves,"
he adds."
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1) "IBM PC Servers consume more space in the data center than
Xserves". Is there anyone on the planet actually believe that the
XServe beats out server offerings from Dell, HP and IBM in this respect?
Why are you assuming that the guy hasn't checked that out?
He has experience with both. What's your experience to contradict him?
2) He's consdiering swapping out Lotus Notes with Leopard. Yeah,
right. Like that will provide anywhere near the same functionality.
He might as well use Hotmail or Gmail.
Do you know what functionality is going to be included in Leopard?
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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