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TCOnow! for Linux Migration Now Available

Organizations can quickly see if moving to Linux will save money

Boxborough, MA -- CIOview Corp., the leading provider of software tools that help organizations make better IT purchasing decisions, today announced TCOnow! for Linux Migration. TCOnow! for Linux Migration helps companies determine the economic effect of migrating their applications to Linux.

Linux migration has been a common mantra for the past year or two, but companies are finding that they need hard data to support such a major IT endeavor. Using TCOnow for Linux Migration, organizations can determine what platform will save them the most money when they make the move to Linux.

About TCOnow! for Linux Migration
TCOnow! for Linux Migration helps organizations determine if migrating some or all of their applications to Linux will lower their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The software tool gives organizations a side-by-side comparison of Linux migration costs on a variety of platforms. TCOnow! for Linux Migration breaks down costs by category (for example, hardware, software, software services, personnel and more) and by platform.

TCOnow! factors in an organization's current environment, such as current operating system, hardware and software, amount of storage, primary and secondary workloads, location, industry, staffing, and even hours of operation. CIOview's TCO inference engine processes that detailed information, and the result is a 3- 4- or 5-year TCO analysis by hardware platform.

Sensitivity analysis is built into TCOnow, so you quickly can adjust systems, financial and implementation factors, and immediately see the TCO results. Those TCO results are available in a variety of accounting formats, including budgeted, after-tax, and "CFO-ready" (after-tax and depreciation) TCO, with drill down access to an enormous amount of back-up detail and assumptions.

About TCOnow!
TCOnow! uses a minimum number of questions, combined with a sophisticated inference engine, to immediately generate a reasonable estimate of your financial costs. You also can drill down into each cost category to review every assumption, for changes when appropriate. TCOnow!'s inference engine is based on real-world customer experiences combined with benchmark data from International Data Corporation (IDC) and CIOview's patent-pending modeling methodology.

The result of this analysis is a robust business case that facilitates implementation decisions. The full business case can be printed out in a report that details each line item of cost by category and shows which costs have the greatest affect on TCO.

TCOnow consists of 3 modules: PreView, FullView and Report. PreView is designed to show you how the major cost drivers affect the TCO of each platform, and is a very high level of analysis that presents a good overview. Once you complete PreView, you can move to FullView to customize your analysis and examine all of the in-depth variables and assumptions that determine your TCO. Finally, TCOnow! automatically generates a 35-page business case report, complete with graphs, explaining your TCO analysis.

Pricing and Availability
TCOnow! for Linux Migration is priced at $3,499 per license, and is available now at www.cioview.com.

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.