Hidden costs
Fruehe goes on to suggest the Intel is guilty of either over simplifying the situation or not understanding it in the first place. He then lists some costs he thinks would be associated with the manoeuvre described by Intel, thus implying some or all of them had been left out of the Intel calculation:
- Consolidation prep
- Migration of the data
- Security
- Testing
- Unplanned consequences
- Licensing changes
- Disposal
On top of all this has to be added the cost of labour, concludes Fruehe, and opines that the cost of hardware is usually the lowest cost of a server deployment project by far. He makes no counter-claims on behalf of AMD Opteron based server deployments.
Ultimately only the project managers of a given server deployment can calculate the unique costs associated with it, but do you think Fruehe has a point or is this just sour grapes from AMD. Let us know in the HEXUS.community discussion forums.
