Hay Akash, Great point indeed, Infact HLCIT is also looking forward for calculating the TCO for their software. Wouldn't it be great if you add some of your valuable cents at http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dd3bchbk_28gpq6xzcg&hl=en.
Further, anyone else who is interested to underline their views or join the work in progress, please write back. FOSS Nepal is working on this initiative to finish it by Ahasd 2006 Hope many of you might be able to made it, welcome on board Best Regards, Hempal Shrestha On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <[email protected]>wrote: > *"Detractors of free software like to point out it's not really 'free,' > and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership is often comparable with > closed-source solutions if you take everything into account. And yet, > despite their enthusiasm for including all the costs, they never include a > very real extra that users of Microsoft's products frequently have to pay: > the cost of cleaning up malware > infections<http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14>. > For example, the UK city of Manchester has just paid out nearly $2.5 > million<http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1121846_bus_lane_fines_axed_over_bug?rss=yes>to > clean up the Conficker worm, most of which was 'a £1.2m [$2million] bill > in the IT department, including £600,000 [$1 million] getting "consultancy > support" to fix the problems, which including drafting in experts from > Microsoft.' To make the comparisons fair, isn't it about time these often > massive costs were included in TCO calculations?" > > Read more <http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/30/1752220> > > *Regards > Akash Deep Shakya "OpenAK" > B.E. (Computer) | Kathmandu University > http://www.akashdeepshakya.com.np > akashakya at gmail dot com > P.O.Box: 8975 EPC: 4235 > > ~ Failure to prepare is preparing to fail ~ > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
