Indian LUG: TCO: Total Cost of Ownership--A Case for Linux in Schools
Jan 17, 2003, 05:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
"Amidst the brouhaha over the Microsoft sponsored study that
reflected the act that 'in the long run, the TCO for systems
running Linux as OS would be considerably higher than ones running
on MS platforms,' one item that got lost is the usage of the word
TCO. TCO as defined by the above mentioned IDC study relates to the
cost of ownership, however in this case the author would like to
evaluate TCO as Total Cost of Operations and thus extrapolate the
inherent benefits of schools switching their networks over to a
more viable and cost effective Linux based setup...
"FreeBSD and Linux systems can be of enormous benefits to school
business models. While these operating systems have long been
adopted as the backbone of the IT industry, running web-servers and
the like, they are also in areas of mission critical importance
replacing Microsoft and Novell File Server(s). The Linux operating
system and other OS under the umbrella of OpenSource or Free
Software movement can be obtained for free from the local Linux
Users Group--nothing comes cheaper than that. Yet the price may not
be the only advantage that schools will obtain from such a switch
over. Recent developments in application suites entail that a wide
array of established and presumed applications and operations are
handled by such OSs. Moreover, the unique networked environment in
schools makes Linux a better choice..."
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