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CIOview Announces Real-Time TCO

New IT value program unveiled at Intel's worldwide sales event

Anaheim, CA -- Today at Intel Corp.'s ISMC Worldwide Sales event CIOview, the leading provider of business value analysis software, unveiled a ground-breaking Web-based IT analysis service. According to Ann Palermo, VP of Marketing, "It's as simple as answering a limited number of questions on a Web form and within minutes a customer receives a side-by-side Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis based on their particular issues. Now Intel customers can immediately see when Itanium2 makes financial sense and where the sweet-spot is for Xeon MP."

Previously, this kind of analysis was only available from high-end management consultants, and took weeks or months to accomplish. Now, using Real-Time TCO, IT buyers have immediate access via the Web to a detailed, customized analysis comparing the financial and technological implications of two or more technology choices.

Debunking IT Myths

A Real-Time TCO comprehensive analysis often demonstrates that the common sales practices of cutting hardware or software prices have less impact on business value than:

• Selecting the optimal hardware and configuring it correctly
• Choosing the appropriate operating system
• Deploying the most appropriate software
• Designing in the best storage solution
• Predicting downtime and having the appropriate method to value it

Real-Time TCO offers IT executives an enormous opportunity to positively impact the decision making process both for new IT projects and for replacing existing infrastructure. IT executives need detailed business cases to support these initiatives and Real-Time TCO fulfills this need in a matter of minutes.

Standard and Objective Methodology

CIOview's new IT analysis service ensures that:

• IT comparisons are in a format easily shared throughout the enterprise
• Customers have an objective and standard TCO process
• The Fortune 2000 has more than 500 specific IT scenarios they can analyze
• Small organizations now have access to world-class IT project assessment
• IT can see what design decisions are really driving their IT costs

How Real-Time TCO Works
Access to the Web is all that is required to begin using CIOview's Real-Time TCO:

Step 1:  Select the analysis you wish (e.g., Windows compared to Linux), decide which platforms to compare (e.g., Intel, RISC), and then choose from five to 10 different workloads

Step 2:  Using a Web form, answer 20 scenario-specific questions and hit submit. Within minutes you receive an email with a one-page TCO SnapShot comparison, your project file and a complimentary copy of CIOview's TCOnow! desktop software.

Step 3:  Use the one-page TCO SnapShot as a starting point for your analysis and review the hundreds of assumptions and details using CIOview's desktop software.

Pricing and Availability
Real-Time TCO will be available on February 14th at the company's Web site (www.cioview.com) as well as through partners. Upon initial availability, Real-Time TCO will include the following analyses:

• Windows compared to Linux
• Oracle versus SQL Server
• HP against an IBM mainframe
• 64-bit compared to 32-bit processors
• Hundreds of platform- and workload-specific TCO comparisons

Pricing will be announced at availability.

About CIOview
CIOview is the industry standard provider of software products that configure, cost and compare technology solutions, so that IT professionals make better purchasing decisions. Use by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies, CIOview is the standard for comparing value of IT solutions.

CIOview® and ROInow!® are registered trademarks, and TCOnow!™ is a trademark, of CIOview Corp.