Tadpole-RDI said the reliability and mobility of its machines lead to substantially lower total cost of ownership. Platinum Technology has placed an order worth over $1m for portable Unix workstations from Tadpole-RDI.
Intel has also installed Windows 2000 on all of its laptops in an attempt to improve reliability and reduce total cost of ownership. Intel is planning to release a corporate peer-to-peer application inspired by Napster.
Reducing the amount of power a computer uses can bring down the total cost of ownership while at the same time up reliability, particularly in high temperatures. IBM has begun working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in...
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). However, the reliability characteristics and the comparative ease of recoverability of...
Taylor said Microsoft has moved its focus from total cost of ownership to interoperability. The software colossus had been contending, through a series of Microsoft-funded studies and "Get the Facts" advertisements, that Microsoft products have a...
Some businesses buy consumer class PCs and laptops for company use due to their lower initial cost but analyst Gartner is warning they could actually end up with a higher total cost of ownership. She said the premium companies pay for business...