Posted by onedbguru on 04/06/06 20:26

What I find most interesting about TCO is the fact that most businesses
neglect to include employee idle-time during system unavailabilty due
to constant security patching or system crashing or really slow
performance due to undersized apps and systems. Licensing is
definately one of the most costly pieces of TCO. Hardware is "cheap",
but when you have to replace it every 2-3 years - it becomes nothing
more than a tax write-off. I know of servers (not Intel) that have
been in production 24x7x365 for more than 10 years. Companies also
raise the TCO by spending tons of $$$ to code a project and then throw
it out 2 years later because it is not "latest technology". I know of
certain very-high-transaction-rate systems that execute 10 to 20 times
faster using and old green screen system. There are times where
green-screen can significantly reduce TCO.

But, too many CIO's only buy the latest "buzz-word".

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