[tlug] Total operational cost... hard stats anywhere?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave M G writes:

 > Does anyone know of any kind of hard statistical research or data
 > that demonstrates any comparative metric for measuring "total
 > operational cost" for operating systems?

There are lots of them.

But I don't advise opening that can of worms.  Doing it "correctly" is
necessarily very case-specific, and making appropriate adjustments to
get meaningful statistical results for "average" cases is a job for a
specialist.  As Disraeli is alleged to have said: "There are three
kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

What you could do is get a case study, a local government would be a
likely candidate, of an organization that switched in part or whole to
OSS.