Total cost of ownership

[fretchen]

Quite a number of times I have observed that the total cost of ownership is a nice way to structure the discussions around pros and cons for different software stacks. So I would like to propose to include it here to make clear that often you can use it to roughly estimate:

• Cost of licences
• Cost of internal devs / external devs
• Cost of internal administration
• Cost of hardware /maintenance

This allows you then to compare different scenarios in a way that also speaks to non-tech people...

[fretchen]

Recently stumbled across this one, which is focused on health, but the main ideas are nice:

https://digitalsquare.org/blog/2022/12/1/how-much-do-digital-health-interventions-cost-a-new-tool-helps-countries-estimate