Some of that investment is in the form of the computers themselves, and in the programs they run. Part of the cost is in training employees to use those computers and that software. Some of it is in the peripheral hardware with which the business desktop interacts: printers, scanners, networks, and so on. Another big part is the investment in the experts employed by the company to keep all of this running smoothly. We are talking big bucks.But there are indeed reasons to move from the most popular to one of the other two desktops. Some of them are purely philosophical and ethical. Others are fairly practical. How much such a move affects your organization depends on how big you are, how flexible you are, and how badly you want to do it. Much of the movement away from Windows is driven by frustration with Microsoft, their software, and their business ethics. There are some famous cases of such moves.
Lately, some corporations have decided that Macs are not much more trouble for them to use and maintain than Windows machines. Personally, I wanted to make the move for primarily philosophical reasons. I do not like what Microsoft has become and do not want to send them any more money. I looked at both choices that were available to me and decided that I would start with the Mac and see how it worked for me and how it dealt with the Windows PCs that are spread across my admittedly small venture. For the next few days, we will be looking at the reasons that I made the change, why I made the change that I did, and how it went.
Tomorrow, why I did not move to *nix.
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