Cost of Ownership after 15 years of improving price-performance?

• 142 Interviews, 2H01

• $2.4B/yr avg. sales

• Avg. 3 - 12 servers, 1100 - 7600 users/site

• not included: space, power, media, comm., HW/SW support contracts, downtime

• Internet/Intranet: firewall,Web serving,Web caching, B2B, B2C

• Collaborative: calendar,email, file/database,

Source: "The Role of Linux in Reducing the Cost of Enterprise Computing“, IDC white paper, sponsored by Red Hat, by Al Gillen, Dan Kusnetzky, and Scott McLaron, Jan. 2002, available at www.redhat.com

Internet

Collaborative

3 yr C.O.

HW+SW

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