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Windows Less Expensive Than Linux?
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Frost & Sullivan has conducted a survey that says that when it comes to total cost of ownership, Windows turns out to be cheaper than Linux.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006:
A recent study by Frost & Sullivan on the total cost of ownership (TCO) revealed that the Microsoft Windows 2003 environment across enterprises has close to 15.9 per cent advantage over Linux and constitutes lower TCO in 80 per cent of the instances encompassing application servers, network servers and mail servers.
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According to Dr T.R. Madan Mohan, director, consulting, ICT practice, Frost & Sullivan India, "Our research revealed that, for application servers, Microsoft Windows 2003 emerges with the lowest TCO which is 22.4 per cent lower than Linux where as for network servers and mail servers, it is 11 per cent and 8.24 per cent, respectively, lower than Linux. Linux platform offers a TCO advantage of 4.7 per cent in file print server and 24 per cent 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."
R. Ragavan, assistant general manager, IT, 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 standardised. The IT staff is now focusing more on improvement activities."
According to another key participant in the study, N. Nataraj, CIO, Aztecsoft Ltd., "TCO of Linux is greater than that of Windows 2003 server by approximately 20 per cent. 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."
Frost & Sullivan conducted the first-ever survey on TCO given the fact that organisations in India are increasingly moving towards having a detailed information policy along with well-defined IT objectives. Interestingly, in India, hardware is the largest component of TCO of Indian enterprises, where software costs are just about 15 per cent of the Capital expense and 6 per cent of overall TCO.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the TCO consists of the cost incurred by an enterprise in the course of selection (search and evaluation), installation (capital and deployment cost), maintenance and deployment (both planned and unplanned), and upgrades of software systems over the course of five years. It also includes indirect costs associated with planning, audit, and other incidental costs, such as consulting, roll-out, configuration management, bug-fixing and testing, and module integration.
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