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Outsourcing the Infrastructure to the Net: Portera Hosts Software, Services, and a Marketplace for Professional Service Providers

Overview This white paper examines the twin financial perspectives of Total Cost Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment (ROI), Portera's outsourced model is a potent proposition. The opportunity cost of deploying a practice-wide client/server equivalent is comparatively high. The fact that Portera counts the IT services departments of client/server application providers among its customers is an outstanding proof point of its value.

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Publisher	Portera Systems	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Outsourcing

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