Re: Macs not used in business, part II



"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-07A738.16185305062008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
In article <dIidnRSXf5dz7NXVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"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_/
> 2>
>
> "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 Specifically, she'd been running an outdated version of Microsoft's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 With her terminal server being outdated, she was told the best option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.

As usual, your analysis is utterly superficial.

It seems reasonable given the information we have.

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.

But..

...there's so much you can't figure out.

That doesn't make it all non-existent.

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.

"Servers Est. Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 $ 4,424
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard $ 8,213
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Enterprise $57,670
Office Forms Server 2007 $ 4,424

Client Access Licenses Est. Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL $ 94
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL1 $ 75
Office Forms Server 2007 CAL $ 54
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 $ 187

Internet Facing Sites Est. Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites $40,943
Office Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites $22,118

To be licensed for the Enterprise Edition functionality of Office
SharePoint Server 2007, both the Standard and Enterprise client access
licenses are required."

Seems like you might need to add things up again...

Why would a 25 person company need to buy the enterprise version of this software? I don't consider a 25 person sized company an enterprise. So why pay for it?

.

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