[osol-mktg] Solaris real TCO

[Massimo Cardaci]

Well... I was tempted to ask about the T-shirt, but let's be serious... I also want the T-shirt!

Apart from this clear business goal, there is a question on the real TCO of using OpenSolaris, especially to compare apples with apples when making a choice between Solaris and other UX* flavours.

Maybe we can work-out all togheter...  I start with a list, and let's add stuff... (sorry for the table formatting... ;-)
If someone can put values...

[b]
Cost element ......|. Solaris no OpenSource .|. Solaris OpenSource .| Linux[/b]
-----------------------+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------------
Purchase........... |.............................|  ........................ | ...........
SW maintenance.. |.............................|  ........................ | ...........
SW support........ |.............................|  ........................ | ...........
-----------------------+-----------------------------+--------------------------+------------

In assembling the table, the purchase cost of former releases gets nearly wiped out by the HW maingtenance contract.
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