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Palm and the Palm OS versus Pocket PC Mobile Solutions Deployment
Overview Palm, Inc. ('Palm') retained Gantry Group to profile, probe and quantify the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) associated with enterprise mobile solutions. The two leading mobile solution platforms were selected for the study: Palm OS and Pocket PC. A total of forty (40) enterprise sites with deployed mobile solutions were researched, recruited and interviewed for this study, evenly representing each platform (i.e. 20 Palm-OS solutions; 20 Pocket PC-based solutions). Since no preexisting methodology framework for a mobile solution TCO study existed, Gantry Group developed a methodology that captured the many facets of mobile solution TCO. Gantry Group then designed and tested a highly parameterized TCO measurement tool that captured multiple cost components associated with buying, deploying, managing and supporting handheld devices. This tool enforced consistent TCO profiling of each enterprise interviewed within the study.
| Publisher | Palm Computing Inc. | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | May 2002 | Downloads | 8 |
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