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Development Solution and Framework Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment Study

PublisherValley View Ventures
Format222.0KB PDFDate added01 Jun 2004
Topics .NET, ROI - TCO, Application Development
Downloads122

This paper summarizes the results of an Infostructure Associates study comparing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI) of higher-level development solutions, such as Progress 4GL plus the Progress OpenEdge framework, to so-called third-generation language development tools, such as those offered for the C# programming language by Microsoft in Visual Studio .NET 2003 with its .NET Framework platform. The paper particularly focuses on TCO and ROI for those Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) or departments/divisions of large enterprises attempting to create or upgrade mission-critical applications for internal use.

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