Comments on: The unsung perils of Linux love and penny pinching http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/the-unsung-perils-of-linux-love-and-penny-pinching/ What's new and what matters in IT news, opinion and analysis. Wed, 08 May 2013 17:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: RouxTheDay http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/the-unsung-perils-of-linux-love-and-penny-pinching/#comment-186 RouxTheDay Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:09 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/?p=1923#comment-186 The downstream effects of penny-pinching and making architectural decisions based purely on a single cost model in branch offices can be far-reaching. All technology components reach an end-of-life eventually, and putting aging technology components “out of sight – out of mind” almost guarantees that you’re going to caught with something critical out of support.

Additionally, decisions about what technologies to deploy in branch offices versus central IT can have serious impacts. You may save money by dropping maintenance contracts on computer hardware in the branch offices, but your data center and data communications costs may skyrocket to compensate.

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