However, client/server saw off this threat too - again, the PC industry concentrated on improving manageability, and end users proved unwilling to ditch the PC. This brought down the total cost of ownership, making it easier for IT departments to...
When it comes to considering whether mainframe computers are 'expensive' one can get involved in some very complex arguments about total cost of ownership (TCO). Irrespective of the TCO arguments, small mainframe systems can be very cost effective...
It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO [total cost of ownership], our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties...
One of the key points for a CIO on the verge of an IT environment review and consequent analysis of the relative TCO merits of Windows versus Linux is to actually do an analysis. CIOs with TCO on the brain might start to wonder if Linux cost...
He then did some telegraphing of his own for business PCs, pointing to "embedded IT" features including manageability, security and virtualisation that Intel believes are central to using PCs in business environments.
We do not have a goal to compare total cost of ownership. He said: "I don't think that we can [achieve 100 per cent migration] because of interdependencies. The city of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later...
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