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Originally Posted by Tommo  As I tried to make clear, it will depend on what is driving the change of platform. If the firm is going to migrate to Indesign anyway any costs associated with that can be factored out as they will exist on whatever platform is is based.
As an IT professional I do not think I am being naive in thinking users will 'learn a new system'. This might have been the case 10 years ago, but the majority of people now do not find computers as daunting as they once did. It should take little more than a couple of hours basic tuition to allow users to make the move from Mac to PC or vice versa. The only problem I have ever encountered when getting users to make the switch is to get past platform bias for whichever system they were using before.
As they don't specify how many users or systems would be involved it is difficult to say how much could be saved on hardware. If it is only a few then I agree it may well be exceeded by other costs incurred such as extra staff. If however it is a large publishing house with hundreds of machines those extra costs will offset the saving on hardware. |
You make some good points. However, how can your publishing house make such a huge change without doing due diligence?
Does your firm do its own printing? If not, they might also want to figure out if their print vendor/s can take collected pc files. Not all service bureaus can.