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Lower TCO for Windows-Based Services Fuels Profitability for Italian Hosting Leader

Overview Numerous Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) studies have compared the cost of an infrastructure based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and one based on Linux. Microsoft wanted to understand TCO in the context of the Web hosting services environment, with particular emphasis on the relationship between TCO and the contribution margin provided by the environments' services. At aruba.it, Italy's largest hosting service provider, Microsoft found that the TCO of its existing Windows-based shared hosted services was 16 percent lower than the TCO of its Linux-based offerings. Moreover, the contribution margin from the Windows-based services was 14 percent higher than the contribution margin from the analogous Linux-based services.

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PublisherMicrosoft File FormatHTML
Date PublishedFebruary 2007
FormatCase Studies   
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