You must compare Apples with Apples. The CIO of a medium to large company, faced with choosing between expensive Apples and cheaper PCs has no choice at all. He buys or leases PCs and uses the millions he saved to buy more server capacity. Its the network and the servers running it that are at the core of the business. The PCs sitting on everyones desk are mere input/output devices, comparatively speaking, but its the corporate users who keep the IT world humming. The real money, as Bill Gates knows only too well, is in the software. Macs may be the Rolls-Royces of the computing world, but the majority have to make do with the company car or a family runabout.