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It is easy to look at the cost of computing as being the
same as the cost of computers – typically around £700
today. However, this does not take into account the myriad
additional costs that are necessary to keep a computer network
running. Putting all these costs together is known as TCO
(Total Cost of Ownership).
These costs include the cost of software, including renewals,
subscriptions, and support; technical support and maintenance
contracts, installation costs, back-up costs, security costs,
time lost to productive work and others.
The Gartner Group, who are specialists in assessing these
types of costs, estimate that the TCO of a desktop PC is
around $7,500 over the PC’s life cycle, for large
corporates.
Our own analysis of costs for a small, 5 computer network,
is below.
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