Star Opinion: TCO for Everyone who isn't a Multinational Corporation
Linked by Ryan (aka Aurex) on Thu 10th Jun 2004 19:55 UTC
In the News Ever since Microsoft started publicly outing Linux with their "Get the Facts" campaign, I have seen numerous articles and studies about the TCO (total cost of ownership) of both products in a head to head manner. However, I have yet to see one article discuss the TCO for home users and small businesses. I have thought long and crunched many numbers to devise a conclusion to this years old debate and I think the results are obvious... Windows is way more expensive than Linux.
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Devil's advocate
by psycosis on Thu 10th Jun 2004 21:15 UTC

> Let's start with the basic costs of a Windows XP Home machine for an average user. We'll say about $500 with the OS

Sure.

> Drop another $45 into Norton 2004

or download the free AVG.

> That's another $400 for Microsoft Office XP Standard.

or download the free OpenOffice.org

> That's another $30 for Norton Firewall.

or download the free Zone Alarm

> So for the average user here we'll say about $60 a pop for getting a system cleaned and updated at a service shop that knows what they are doing.

Or download the free Firefox and free Thunderbird and free Spybot

So far at home things look good for only $500 per box (lets say $650 for WinXP pro.)

I don't know server costs.

So far the article is out the window.