Study: Windows 2000 adoption to cost a
pretty penny
By Bob Trott
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 1:28 PM PT, Sep 9, 1999
Microsoft's vision of corporations migrating to Windows 2000 likely will become very clouded
once IT managers realize the costs of adopting the much-anticipated technology, a study by
researchers at Gartner Group asserted Thursday.
According to the Gartner Group's numbers, it will cost between $1,250 and $2,050 per desktop
to migrate from Windows NT Workstation 4.0 to Windows 2000 Professional. The cost of
moving from Windows 9x to Windows 2000 will be even higher, according to the report --
between $2,015 and $3,100 per PC.
"Enterprises must understand that TCO (total cost of ownership) reduction is not a justification
for a Windows 2000 desktop migration," Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research
director at Gartner Group, said in the report. "Because of the high cost of migration, enterprises
can actually lose money before they touch the first system."
Gartner Group arrived at its desktop-migration cost estimates based on a 2,500-user, networked
enterprise, and did not take into account costs associated with Windows 2000 Server and
implementation of its Active Directory technology.
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