Yes, The prices are higher in Europe. For software hardware as well.
It is not subject of taxes, I'm talking about net prices. It's also not
an issue of customs (border taxes).
BTW: taxes are higher.
Of course total cost of ownership includes hardware and software fees,
and many other components, like people's salary or taxes or cost of
telecommunication.
However I'd like to draw your attention to another aspect:
Nobody cries when hearing about off-shoring to U.S.
Do you remember the postings when someone wrote about off-shoring out-of
U.S. ?
Is it 'unidirectionally' fair ?
"I'm robbed - it's bad, I robbed someone - it's good".
My opinion: off-shoring is neither bad nor good. It is kind of
competition. Competition is a fact, like gravity.
My $0.02
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Phil Payne wrote:
What if the target country were the USA?
I haven't checked current data, and it's too much of an effort - in this
instance - to get my
facts right.
But the last time I looked, IBM software (especially middleware like DB2) was
substantially
cheaper in the USA than it was in the UK. Around CICS and DB2, we're talking a
third or so.
Given that we now have the sort of bandwidth that's giving me subsecond
response in Sheffield
from Redmond, I'd think any British bank that didn't seriously evaluate putting
its data
centre in Arizona would be nuts.
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