Here's a cool little article from TechWeb via InformationWeek:
Report: Have Mac, Will Get Return On Investment
(07/28/97; 3:00 p.m. EDT)
By Rich Levin, InformationWeek
Buy a Macintosh, improve your return on investment. That's the finding of a study to be
published in August by high-technology market researcher Gistics, in Larkspur, Calif.
The company's research also suggests IT leaders emphasize ROI over simply driving
down the total cost of ownership.
The independently funded report says Mac users in the digital-media production sector,
such as advertising, marketing and Web development, produce on average $26,441 more
annual revenue and $14,488 more net profit per person than Windows users of
comparable skill engaged in similar work activities.
The revenue differential enables Mac-based digital-media production studios to achieve
payback on desktop systems in 4.59 months, the report says, while Win NT-based
companies require 12.58 months to recoup. The researchers said they polled 30,226
media professionals and 10,000 media-producing companies before compiling their
results.
"We were surprised," said Stephan M.H. Braitman, Gistics editor-in-chief and director of
professional publications. "But basically, the bottom line is, if you want to make a profit
as a media-production studio, large or small, buy a Mac, because the return on investment
is clear."
Braitman said the Mac's ROI differential transitions well to other, more mundane
computing sectors, such as word processing, spreadsheets and database services. "A lot
of these results are applicable across a wider spectrum of the industry," he said.
I love it,
Scott |
