From Linux World: “On the face of it, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) sounds like it should be a valuable tool to project cost-estimates of various software solutions. There is certainly truth to the notion that purchase-price alone doesn’t determine total cost. The problems with published TCO studies begin and end with the fact that their allure is only skin-deep.”
The articles takes “three current real-world scenarios to learn what elements should be included in TCO calculations.”