Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a measure of the true costs of running software. Software and hardware purchase prices can become negligable in comparison to the cost of the employees needed to manage a software deployment. A recent study by IDC shows that for most Enterprise deployments, Windows 2000 had a lower TCO than Linux [CRN]. However, Linux did beat Windows 2000 for running web applications. 1:16:53 PM ![]() |