Question

Hardware and software acquisition costs account for about ________ percent of tco.

Answer 1

20 percent - TCO or Total Cost of Ownership consists of a number of factors, both tangible and intangible. It is easy to ignore the intangible costs like admin costs, training costs, operations costs, etc. and focus only on the tangible costs like cost of hardware and software acquisition. In reality, hardware and software acquisition accounts for only 20% of the TCO. Other intangible and support costs can contribute significantly to the TCO