Traditionally, IT management has been about providing a service at the lowest possible cost, but not to think entrepreneurially about the business. He claimed looking at it in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO) or return on investment (ROI...
The report said the operating system and PC represent less than a third of the total cost of ownership and that migration should only be considered in a few situations. He said organisations should compare the costs and savings of a move to Linux...
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...
It stated that Microsoft had the lowest elapsed time between the disclosure of a vulnerability and the release of a fix. He claimed that Windows was a better choice than Linux in terms of security, total cost of ownership (TCO) and protection...
NEC has launched two computers utilising Intel's vPro technology, which it claims will reduce the total cost of ownership for buyers. According to NEC, the use of vPro technology reduces total cost of ownership because the manufacturer's retail...
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...