[Sigia-l] Tool standardization (was about visio or not to visio)

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"Adrian Howard" wrote:
> Also, it's often not the cheapest product that causes this
> standardisation - but the cheapest product set. It can be a *really*
> hard task to convince an IT department that they should buy a Foo
> application that runs on Bar when Foo and Bar  differ from every other
> piece of supported software and hardware in the organisation. When you
> start factoring  in support and maintenance costs the purchasing
> decision isn't so clear cut.

I'm not sure what you mean. Macs are considered to be much easier to
support, they certainly last longer than your average PC, they are more
compatible in heterogeneous networks than PCs, they run practically all of
the apps that are important, at least in our industry, including the Office
and stuff from Adobe, Macromedia, etc. All these blanket statements are not
very useful. 

Ziya
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