>>We will at the point when a new (non 9 boot) machine comes in the door be
>>forced to either:
>>purchase a complete set of software licenses for it (that run under X) or
>>upgrade one set of existing licenses to X - either way there is (as I
>>mentioned before) a significant $$ out lay.
>
>How about the idea I have stated elsewhere... don't buy new. Buy a used
>Mac. There are TONS of them out there. You will save big dollars on your
>hardware purchase, and you won't need to worry about license upgrades.
not buying new as its own problems -
1 - warrentee - broken hardware out of warrentee costs $ to fix
2 - allowed vendors - we will not even go there...
>Besides, if you don't want to buy a new license... that means you have no
>real plans to install additional hardware... so you assume that your
>current hardware is going to break down to an unrecoverable point before
>you have a fixed need or desire to upgrade the software anyway.
in some respects that is true -
in others false
true:
* I have no control over when a new employee is brought on - so I have no
idea what to plan for. (a new person started monday, I found out
yesterday)
False
* new hardware was expected (up until last month) to run existing
applications, so new licensing would not be needed, and new hardware that
was planned to be purchased - next year - was planned to replace existing
aging hardware (accelerated 7100's only last so long.....)
>Barring that, what is your alternative? Buy a PC? Run Windows? You are
>still faced with all new software costs, only now you are saddled with
>additional admin requirements. I see that as a step in the wrong
>direction.
actually - the cost of buying a new PC vs a dual 1.25ghz Mac leaves
enough $ to buy most of the nesesary software - (notice - most not all).
If the software vendors will allows a 'side grade' - exchange a mac
license for a PC one the total cost (of puchase) is lower.
But - as you said - PC admin is an entirely different nightmare.
Although my X experiences are not that much different than a PC - so far.
in an environment which was more 'pro PC' the above cost issue would
leave me no choice whatsoever.
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Chip Scheide Systems Coordinator
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute,
is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any
prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of
government will will disable us from descerning a good one."
Thomas Paine - Common Sense, Feb 14 1776
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