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Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO Analysis

Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO AnalysisWhen you factor in the future value ..... of money Windows will cost you more even if all of the assumptions about TOC are correct. With Windows you have to expense the funds during the initial purchase, funds that would have been diverted...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 2000, Benefits, OPEN SOURCE, Apache/Tomcat, analysis, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Corp., salary, Microsoft TCO Analysis, Microsoft TCO, Linux-versus-Windows, server

Discussion threads 2008-10-18

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The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Microsoft ad: Lauren wanted a Mac but 'settled' for Windows

Microsoft ad: Lauren wanted a Mac but 'settled' for Windowstco FAR less?? What a joke.Did you factor in the rape and pilla . . er the cost of an upgrade or repair from the Apple GEEEEEENIUSES when the next door neighbor kid throws his hands up in the air when...

Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PC, PC sale, TCO, UAC

Discussion threads 2009-03-29

Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage

Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage They are both irrelevant... or should have been.Adrian was originally wanting to send a fax, which prompted him to find a fax template and WGA/OGA insisted that he needed to first recertify his Sharepoint and Project sw.So Adrian would have been better off using Open Office.Unless...

Tags: Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Desktop TCO and user rights

Desktop TCO and user rightsDesktop PrisonI agree that this "new" product is aimed at locking down desktops. I wonder just how many people out there have experienced a locked down PC. The inability of being able to do simple tasks (defrag, run your own software, etc.) makes it a real...

Tags: Desktops, menu structure, Thin Client solution, Desktop TCO, desktop, DumbRay, user right

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Microsoft's cloud is more about Notes migration and less about a new IT architecture

Microsoft's cloud is more about Notes migration and less about a new IT architectureYou nailed thatIt's the only card they have left in the deck, and they can play it because they are positioning an unknown buzzword gamble against the customer's existing environment. I am talking to lots of...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, information technology, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO Analysis

When you're hired to prove an untruth, success depends on confusing the reader and this report does that in spades - a beautiful example of the consulting art. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Analysis, Outsourcing, Linux, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, Information Technology, IT Professional, TCO, Salary, Computer, Roi/Tco, UNIX, Open Source, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Blog posts 2008-10-18

Desktone "Desktops as a Service"

I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...

Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yet

Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetThe most important statement...."I've not seen any recent comparative studies about Mac v PC TCO"So basically you're just spouting a load of subjective opinion.RE: Ballmer needn't fear the Mac...just yetEat moar Apples.TCO analysis would have been usefulYou state that productivity counts, yet discount a business...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Desktops, Apple Macintosh, TCO, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

A visit to the Microsoft Newseum

A visit to the Microsoft NewseumI AgreeWe all remember the Mac story!MS is all about packaging and marketing.Come on Paul...Microsoft has completely changed the landscape of IT FOREVER. I am in a constant upgrade cycle here. I have MCSEs and MCSDs working 365 days a year on upgrades. Our CFO...

Tags: Operating systems, ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., Unix, Microsoft Newseum

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Microsoft Forefront Client Security TCO Analysis

Organizations are constantly challenged to fortify and extend security solutions to reduce productivity, asset, and information losses. Microsoft Forefront Client Security helps enterprises meet these challenges by reducing vulnerabilities and lowering Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This paper summarizes TCO findings from a survey of select FCS customers. This white...

Tags: TCO, Microsoft Corp., Roi/Tco, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2008-06-01

6 reasons government IT projects fail

6 reasons government IT projects failContradictory demandsThe complexity of a government project can arise not only from the ordicary technical problems, but from frequently observed situations.The simplest example is a data item which has different definitions and neither can be eliminated because each comes from a higher level of government....

Tags: Team management, team, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets

Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...

Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-07

The REDFLY gives me back the utility of a Handheld PC, but with the latest OS

So I was using the REDFLY Windows Mobile Smartphone Companion a bit more with the HTC Advantage and a thought came to me that the REDFLY solves the problem I had with the Windows CE Handheld PCs of the old days. I was a big fan of the Handheld PCs,...

Tags: Device, PC, Operating System, Battery, Handheld Computer, Bluetooth Connection, Bluetooth, Keyboards, Handhelds, Roi/Tco, Microsoft Windows, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-21

When Lintel beats Wintel

Here's the full text of something by frequent contributor Anton Philidor during last week's discussion of various approaches to Lintel/Wintel TCO comparisons: "Linux is more expensive than Windows." You agreed. Quoting: By mid 2004, however, enough people...

Tags: Wintel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Lintel, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Windows: Time to Go on a Diet

Windows: Time to Go on a Diet...by abandoning WindowsI don't mind Windows, but you're right, it needs to be trimmed, a lot. Maybe the stripped-down Windows project will help.Linux does have less bloat, but[i]I haven’t bothered to put together a “Winbloatagraph” equivalent for Linux versions, but I suspect that that...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4.0, Microsoft Windows, Diet

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Is there a lower TCO for Windows Mobile at your company?

Is there a lower TCO for Windows Mobile at your company?This is a marketing toolNot a business tool.[b]The tool was built by Alinean, Inc. for Microsoft [/b]If I can tell you the result without actually running the software, it's not an analysis tool. Going after any animal you can...

Tags: ROI/TCO, mobile, Novell GroupWise, TCO, Microsoft Corp., tool, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them

Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...

Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-22

SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com

This week SAP finally introduced its on demand Business ByDesign suite, aimed at the mid-market (companies with 100 to 500 employees) and starting at $149 per per month per user but with a $54 a month option for a set of five users with limited usage of the software. ...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., Customer, SAP AG, ERP, Workday, Business ByDesign, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-20