Ken Yap wrote:
>
> This sounds like some public, unbiased benchmarkng of TCO is needed. The
> bottom line is the place to aim for.
ROFL. I have on my desk two documents from a PABX manufacturer,
the dates differ by six months.
The first says that traditional PABX systems have the lowest TCO
when compared to competing Voice over IP prodects, including
those from vendor X.
The second, taken after that PABX manufacturer purchased VoIP
vendor X, says that VOIP products have the lowest TCO.
Now the lifetime of a PABX is 15 years and the lifetime of
networking infrastructure is 5 years. Yet the TCO changed
with 0.5 years??
If you really want unbiased TCO, then get a metrics programme
running within your organisation. Until I see time-use forms
from systems administrators, I'll know that they use TCO just
as cynically as sales droids.
The optimum lifetime of a corporate PC is three years, so
you don't need to run the metrics programme for too long before
you can start making reality-based decisions.
As far as I can tell, the manufacturer with most runs on the
board in lowering TCO of PCs is Novell. Unfortunately, they
they to recover most of this in licensing fees.
Glen
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