“At the JAMF Nation User Conference (JNUC) this week, IBM’s Fletcher Previn delivered an update on the company’s rollout of Macs internally since it introduced Apple computers as an option for employees for the first time last yea,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“In just over a year, IBM passed its original goal of deploying 50,000 Macs and is now at 90,000 internally,” Kahn reports. “That makes it the largest enterprise Mac deployment anywhere… IBM plans to reach over 100,000 Macs by the end of the year and is now deploying 1300 a week on average.”
“Back in May of last year, IBM started offering its employees Macs as an official alternative to PCs and chose Jamf to support the rollout. Last year, it noted that Macs were helping it cut down on support employees needed,” Kahn reports. “This year, thanks to the continued rollout, Previn noted that IBM’s total cost of ownership for devices is significantly better than last year. With cost of device, OS, support, resale value and deployment considered, IBM is saving a minimum of $265 per Mac on average versus a comparable PC.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Recognizing TCO is a beautiful thing with which Windows PC dreck never could and still cannot compete.
Total Cost of Ownership should be of more concern to the world’s personal computer buyers than initial sticker price. You get what you pay for, so get a Mac. – MacDailyNews, June 25, 2004
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Why are so many people so afraid to imagine an end to the dark ages of personal computing? Too many MSFT shares in the mutual fund? We have no such problem. Apple Mac will embrace, then extinguish – whether analysts grasp what’s happening or not. — MacDailyNews, March 23, 2007
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