Frost & Sullivan conducts TCO analysis in India

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Elaborating on this study, Dr. T.R. Madan Mohan, Director - Consulting, ICT practice, Frost & Sullivan India said, "While assessing the TCO, organizations should evaluate the CAPEX and OPEX of the specific IT investment throughout the life cycle of the asset. More often than not, the focus is just on CAPEX, which leads to skewed decisions. Specifically while comparing proprietary software with open source software, the CAPEX constitutes 53 percent of the TCO and OPEX constitutes 47 percent. Our analysis shows, while CAPEX for the Linux operating system might be low but the OPEX could be as much as 53.1 percent higher as compared to the Windows 2003 operating system, primarily due to the high cost of support and manpower. Hence, it is prudent for an organization to capture all necessary cost components beyond just the initial cost of acquisition."

 

"Our research revealed that, for application servers, Microsoft Windows 2003 emerges with the lowest TCO which is 22.4 percent lower than Linux where as for network servers and mail servers, it is 11 percent and 8.24 percent respectively, lower than Linux. Linux platform offers a TCO advantage of 4.7 percent in file print server and 24 percent in web server over Microsoft Widows 2003. However, costs of maintenance and upgrades of file print server for Windows 2003 are lower than the Linux environment", added Dr. T.R. Madan Mohan. 

R.Ragavan, Asst. General Manager - Information Technology, Sundaram-Clayton Ltd., Brakes division - one of the key participants in the study, says, "We are now able to maintain better uptime of the servers with lesser restarts. It is user friendly for the system administrator to deploy the network access policies. Version controls are standardized. The IT staff is now focusing more on improvement activities".

 

According to another key participant in the study, Mr. N Nataraj, CIO, Aztecsoft Limited, "TCO of Linux is greater than that of Windows 2003 server by approximately 20 percent. With Linux, one has to spend a lot of time in building skilled manpower, which directly impacts the support and maintenance of a Linux eco system."

 

With business understanding about IT in most organizations on the rise, Frost & Sullivan foresees that more and more IT professionals will begin taking into account the support costs, application integration costs, performance considerations, and availability of IT skill to implement and maintain a platform before they decide on a particular one.

 

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