The leasing vs buying question is pretty standard for anyone in IT finance. Pros and cons are all just business dependent on whether they want to prioritise overall cost, capital upfront or payments smoothed, flexibility, customisation, having the latest gear vs sweating the asset for as long as possible, maintenance costs and SLAs.
Tax impact is basically moot as you either claim the lease payment or the depreciation.
My experience in a company with 1500 desktop users and 500 IT staff... was that it was the software engineers that always had the business cases for bespoke equipment that was over and above even the 'flexible' offerings in HP's catalogue.
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