Gartner pushes TCO

Market research firm Gartner Group hopes to promote a total cost of ownership (TCO) methodology as an industry standard. At the Comdex Show last week, Gartner demonstrated its TCO Analyst methodology as a software prototype.

The standard was sponsored and developed by leading PC suppliers, including AST, AT&T, Cirrus Logic, Citrix, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Microsft, NEC, Novell, Toshiba and Wyse.