A Frost & Sullivan study commissioned by Microsoft on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT assets has revealed that Microsoft Windows 2003 environment across enterprises scores over Linux.

MS Windows 2003 has close to 15.9% advantage over Linux and constitutes lower TCO in 80% of the instances encompassing application servers, network servers and mail servers.

The study was conducted in 54 organisations (both high-end and mid-tier) across banking financial services and insurance, manufacturing, public sector and Government IT-enabled services, BPO and telecom verticals.

CIOs have realised that they need analysis that goes beyond initial purchase cost of a hardware or software, and indicates post-implementation operation, support and maintenance costs too.

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