Well I kind of tend to agree on the tco-bias on work from vendors but they
do offer you an inside track to what they really like about their product at
as that ends up being put more emphasis on in the work.  Compare enough of
them and you have a good study.   However I really do not think that
everyone has such a different scenario so as to make them totally
irellavant.  

Anyway I was also hoping to find some client-side authorship from actual
deployed sites.  Feature comparisons would also be appreciated.
Regards,
Omer.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Valdis Kletnieks
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:00 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Any product comparisons?
> 
> On Fri, 20 May 2005 23:54:11 +0300, 
> "=?iso-8859-9?Q?A._=D6mer_K=F6ker?=" said:
> > I was wondering whether anyone has run across or done any 
> work comparing
> > ListServ to various other products out there wrto total 
> cost of ownership,
> 
> I've never seen a TCO survey that wasn't biased towards some 
> answer or another.
> 
> And even if there *was* an unbiased survey, it would probably 
> not be very
> applicable to you, because *your* cost of ownership will be 
> different.  Some
> sites (like mine) have been using Listserv for close to 20 
> years, and have a
> pretty sizable investment in integrating it into our IT.  
> There's a  lot of
> hidden costs if we were to think about moving to some other 
> product.  Also, I'm
> sure that different sites have different usage patterns on the support
> contracts - mine is split about 50/50 between stupid 
> questions and actual
> bugs..
> 
> Now as to feature comparisons, I'm sure somebody's got plenty 
> of pointers for
> those, and they *do* tend to be objective except for 
> evaluations of the
> *usefulness* of a given feature for a given purpose....
>