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""On the premises side, I think TCO is largely a fantasy," Michels said. "It's a great concept; it's a great theory ... but it's what we want to happen. We often use TCO as a means to justify a decision, but to really gather TCO for any given product or solution is pretty darn hard, and it's filled with a lot of assumptions. ... There are so many moving parts going on here."
This makes any long-term TCO calculation a work of fiction, Michels said. "Our assumptions are borderline correct tomorrow and almost always wrong five years from now."
This does make a good case for the cloud, however, with flexibility its most valuable feature, he added. Further, all the risk becomes the problem of the cloud provider. "
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Links to digest from the Chief Conversation Officer at Spoken Communications
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Category: Business & Finance
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