Beyond Purchase Price: The Importance of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

摘要

Since corporations make financial decisions, it's important to understand Total Cost of Ownership -the key metric for measuring the effectiveness of IT spending. In the PC world, this has long been the domain of Gartner, who developed the industry's first TCO model over 20 years ago. While specific TCO depends on the technology, it always covers three major costs: Capex (Direct)-all hardware & software costs.