Is it possible to make an estimate of the TCO of a similar setup using Open Source products? Ofcourse it should include integration effort of each OSS component which in turn should include the cost of providing a GUI frontend for the backend services. Would be a good point to pitch at educational campuses which supposedly boast "tech-savvy students" but still spend lakhs on the software?
http://www.microsoft.com/india/casestudies/iimc.asp Abstract: */"Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), one of India’s leading management schools, felt a persistent need to connect all its communities via the Internet. With competition from only the top management schools in the world, IIMC wanted to create an infrastructure that was equivalent, if not better, in comparison to any equivalent university in the world.
The solution implemented by IIMC, creates a technology backbone using Microsoft BackOffice and takes the education experience online, connects a dispersed alumni community, provides an extranet for over 600 students to access all relevant information and communication, and creates an ever-growing interactive web-based community of students, alumni and faculty.
This technology infrastructure is comparable to the IT infrastructure available at any university abroad. Keeping with the entrepreneurial nature of IIMC, the technology is deployed and managed by students only."/* [...]
-- Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.sandipb.net sandip at puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. http://www.puroga.com
_______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
