On Fri, 14 May 1999, Christoph Schram wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm writing my Ph.D. about TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). I'm in a kind of
> preparation phase and I'm looking for material about TCO and Linux. Does
> anyone know where I can find something about this topic?
>
> Important figures are: uptime, support, training, installation costs....
>
> Finaly i want to compare TCO of Windows NT with TCO of Linux. Important
> things are for example how are the TCO figures retrieved? Do they come
> from a survey or is it a scientific research?
>From what I understand, TCO figures are only reliable if you compare them to
other TCO's from the *same* accountant. Total costs are very subjective
figures that are used primarily to convince the boss that one product is better
than the other.
Linux will have a relatively lower TCO than NT because of lack of license fees.
On the other hand, NT has a relatively lower TCO since NT specialists are a
dime a dozen.
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Arandir...
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