Jonathan Furlonger, research director in European management research at Gartner Group, said: "I broadly agree - it's not about cost, it's about value. He claimed looking at it in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO) or return on investment (ROI...
Analysts at Gartner and the Yankee Group are predicting the troubled telecom equipment vendor will lose the battle for supremacy in the increasingly "difficult and competitive market. Lucent has suffered a recent catalogue of failures including...
In theory, by working with tested scenarios for which costs already have been estimated, companies can lower the total cost of ownership by reducing mistakes or waste when deploying Microsoft software in the enterprise.
He said organisations should compare the costs and savings of a move to Linux with the cost and savings to upgrade to a newer version of Windows as the total cost of ownership will vary depending on which version of Windows is being considered...
Mobile access to data services has long been touted as the future for the mobile telecom industry. In part, this is based on the needs of operators to grow revenue to pay for third-generation network investments, and in part on the realisation that...
However, Gartner argues that at the operating-system level, Linux deployments are showing smaller benefits in total cost of ownership as it is applied to more demanding projects, because of the technical skills required to use it: "Much of the...