Enterprise PC shop's switch to Apple hits an unexpected snag

“I didn’t see this coming at all,” said Dale Frantz, CIO of Tacoma, Washington-based Auto Warehousing Co.

See the technology nightmare that changing over to Macs would be, right? Nope. The reason for Auto Warehousing Co.‘s difficulties isn’t the technology; it’s employees thinking that an Apple infrastructure is exorbitantly expensive, when, according to Frantz, it’s actually about $1.5 million cheaper than Microsoft’s.

[Frantz] spent the next month explaining to everyone who would be affected the many reasons for the technology swap. Among those is the more than $1.82 million the company calculates it will save over the next three years. That’s what it would cost to upgrade [Microsoft] software licenses if the company remained on PCs; in contrast, the total cost of switching to Macintoshes is $335,000.

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