Great article from an unlikely source. Jacqueline Emigh goes into eight very well thought out reasons why OSX is better for a company's bottom line.
There has been a lot of this in the press recently and the idea of moving to the Mac platform has been gaining a lot of momentum. The numbers however, still don't bear this out.
To sum up, here are the arguments she proposes:
- Macs bring a better overall value proposition
- Macintosh licensing fees are cheaper
- The Mac desktop spawns fewer calls to the help desk
- Mac users are more productive workers
- Macs last longer
- Mac OS is more secure
- Mac is just as cost-effective as Windows to manage and administer
- Add Macs while hanging on to your investments in other OSes
Head over to the full article for more.
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With you, but try convincing a Jurassic IT department
With her/you on all these points, but many companies have overworked IT departments, run ragged keeping a bunch of heap-o-sh*t Win machines alive - their fear of meltdown at the introduction of a new OS is probably the biggest barrier to entry for OS X in corporate land, because they can't see the medium to long term gain associated with the change.
p.s. nice site, you're now one of my 'must visit over first coffee of the day' destinations.
It's not fear of a new OS -- it's mission critical software
I would suggest that fear is not a significant factor at all in the preference for MS environments in the workplace. The biggest barrier to entry for OS X is simply that the software that is critical for a given business is more likely to require a MS environment. MS Exchange and SQL Server are two obvious examples. In my business, the software we rely on is not written for Mac, and never will be.
move to Mac
[quote=Win at work, Mac at home]I would suggest that fear is not a significant factor at all in the preference for MS environments in the workplace. The biggest barrier to entry for OS X is simply that the software that is critical for a given business is more likely to require a MS environment. MS Exchange and SQL Server are two obvious examples. In my business, the software we rely on is not written for Mac, and never will be.[/quote]
The lack of application excuse is hogwash. With products like VMware Fusion you virtualize all you windows applications and still have the security and reliability of a Mac. if your users mess up the windows session, simply replace it and move on. Easy support and portability are great. Performance on current and even last generation Intel based Macs is excellent. I don’t work for either VMware or Apple and I do what I am suggesting.
That's the most asinine
That's the most asinine thing I've ever heard. So now I'm going to license both OS X and XP/Vista? And no, most of the software I have to use on a regular basis will not run on a Mac. You fanboys are amazing. I work in the power industry and most of our software is custom built to order to run on Unix/Linux or windows. Even Windows is a late addition to this industry. NO MAC!! I have no problem running Mac for my personal life, but don't come in here and try tell me that a company with 20,000 employees heavily utilizing customized software can just incorporate OS X.
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[quote=easy_when_u_work_at_mom_pop_shop]I work in the power industry and most of our software is custom built to order to run on Unix/Linux or windows.[/quote]
I disagree as your comment as yours has now become the most "asinine". As a large company with as you say, custom built to order software to run on UNIX, you are in the BEST position to take advantage of any benefit the Mac has to offer. After all Mac OS X is built on UNIX and will be fully POSIX compliant as of 10.5.
I work at a large financial institution and we have engineered standard Mac OS X builds along side our other OS builds quite successfully. There is no reason that a Mac cannot be integrated into a corporate environment at the server or desktop level.
It seems like most of the anti-MAC comments come from desktop techs afraid of losing their job rather than from people that know and understand technology.