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You know Nortel and Motorola were both "Mac houses" in their heyday.
Now both companies are on the skids - low morale, troubled engineering etc.
The Gardner report on productivity basically said that any manager that switched a team from Mac to PC was "in breach of fiduciary duty" - pretty strong words.
The reasoning ( and this was based on 10,000 companies ) was that the drop in completed tasks, loss of morale and LOSS OF KEY STAFF associated with such a change was often devastating. Support costs skyrocketed and ROI plummeted.
Moto switched out of Macs shortly before their ongoing downward spiral began.
Nortel did just before their peak boom and have been in serious decline since.
Of course not everything could be attributed to such a platform switch - the melt down in the Telecom market for instances but I wonder just how "contributory" the switch to the dark side may have been.
I notice that Quebecor ( yep and we used to sell to them ...duh), a primarily Mac house has been doing very well during difficult times - absorbing other companies and generally prospering.
Any other examples??
Thoughts??
Now both companies are on the skids - low morale, troubled engineering etc.
The Gardner report on productivity basically said that any manager that switched a team from Mac to PC was "in breach of fiduciary duty" - pretty strong words.
The reasoning ( and this was based on 10,000 companies ) was that the drop in completed tasks, loss of morale and LOSS OF KEY STAFF associated with such a change was often devastating. Support costs skyrocketed and ROI plummeted.
Moto switched out of Macs shortly before their ongoing downward spiral began.
Nortel did just before their peak boom and have been in serious decline since.
Of course not everything could be attributed to such a platform switch - the melt down in the Telecom market for instances but I wonder just how "contributory" the switch to the dark side may have been.
I notice that Quebecor ( yep and we used to sell to them ...duh), a primarily Mac house has been doing very well during difficult times - absorbing other companies and generally prospering.
Any other examples??
Thoughts??