Re: Macs not used in business, part II



"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-6B18A2.15463405062008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
So you didn't find sufficient detail in the first article, do you,
wintrolls?

Ignoring the fact that your argument was utterly circular, let's simply
look at another article on the same company and its switch to the Mac:

<http://www.cio.com/article/328917/A_New_Day_for_Macs_in_the_Enterprise_/
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"Shani Magosky, chief operating officer (with IT responsibilities) of
Jaffe Associates, a 25-person marketing and public relations firm,
didn't need the iPhone to embrace Apple.

Magosky started looking into Macs for her traditionally PC and
Windows-based company back in the fall of 2006, she says. She wasn't
necessarily wooed by Bono singing in an iPod commercial. She was sick of
PCs breaking all the time, she says. Then there was the "sticker shock"
of learning what it would cost her to upgrade to Microsoft's SharePoint
collaboration software (and the accompanying server technology.)

Specifically, she'd been running an outdated version of Microsoft's
terminal server, which allowed her employees (all of whom work remotely,
as Jaffe has no central office) to connect to the network and share
files. "It was unnecessarily slow and unreliable," she says. "We ended
up spending a fortune on IT trouble-shooting."

With her terminal server being outdated, she was told the best option
would be to upgrade to SharePoint, which, after purchasing and
installing the server, buying the software licenses and all the support
surrounding it, would have cost US$100,000, Magosky says. "They nickel
and dime you," she says."

Office SharePoint Server 2007 - $4,424
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL - $94

Total cost: $6,774 Retail pricing. That's a far cry from $100K even if you factor in brand new PCs with Vista Business, Office 2007 Professional, two copies of Windows Server Standard 2008, Exchange 2007 w/25 CALs.

Sorry but it looks as if she was given some poor advice. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they were quoted $100K. The prices I've given replace every piece of software plus the computers and it comes to approximately ~$32K. Where is the other $68K going? This is a serious question.

So go ahead, wintrolls: explain once again how you know more about this
business's costs than they do. And while you're at it, tell us all how
cio.com is just a much of "Maccies"...

LOL

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'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included
on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)

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