Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 07, 2005 12:52 PM
"reduce the number of servers by about 50% and gain increased processor availability, disk capacity, and throughput, using Apache, Perl, and other open source software."
It's not just the savings on licenses over Windows and proprietary UNIX. It's the reduction in servers, increase in capacity, and reductions in system administration time and personnel - especially the latter. One less sys admin is $50-75,000 in savings a year.
And the reduction in complexity of the individual servers and overall server farms is a major component of reducing personnel and administration expenses.
If you don't take these things into account, your estimate of the TCO will be off and you will mistakenly believe Windows or Unix is cheaper.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 07, 2005 12:52 PMIt's not just the savings on licenses over Windows and proprietary UNIX. It's the reduction in servers, increase in capacity, and reductions in system administration time and personnel - especially the latter. One less sys admin is $50-75,000 in savings a year.
And the reduction in complexity of the individual servers and overall server farms is a major component of reducing personnel and administration expenses.
If you don't take these things into account, your estimate of the TCO will be off and you will mistakenly believe Windows or Unix is cheaper.
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