The Web Economy/Total Cost of Ownership Pyramid
|
Resource type: this resource is a course. |
|
Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource. |
TCO Pyramid
This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.
Topics
- Total Cost of Ownership[1] or TCO is the burning term used by practitioners to judge the real cost of using a software that includes warranty, support, training and hardware.
- TCO are different from the Operating System level to the Business Application level. Desktop setup displacement cost saves a user only 3,000 unit price as compared to an ERP[2] that costs about 300,000 unit price.
- Implementation and Customisation as well as maintenance and support are the areas where Open Source is most crucial and attractive for vendors to sell such services.
- TCO is only relevant if there is ROI (Return of Investment) involved. In the long term the TCO may skewed if there are indirect but important benefits such as a more independent and self reliant workforce.
Assignment Tasks
- Find out the TCO of using free operating system compared to using free ERP. Based the finding on a simulated live case with actual figures.
Activities
- Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
- Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
- Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.
References
Links to Student Notes
(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)
Notable Links to Resources
(Provided by Students - subject to edit ranking by tutor)
Sub-Pages
(Done in wikiversity as course material by the students under the guidance of the tutor)