Savings versus Proprietary Software

Aproximate Savings by using Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) BR Instead of Proprietary Software or Propietary Black Boxes – Sample Company with 100 Employees Consulting

Reduction on Cost → FLOSS versus Proprietary Software – Running on-premises or with a per user scheme

Anual Up-Front Proprietary Product (Software or Black Instance User / License Per Client Support Cost Up-Front TCO – 5 Year Software Class Free Software Package for Cost Reduction Price box) Quantity Quantity Price (CAL) (Estimated at Savings Savings (estimated) 20%)

Firewall Firewall PFSense Cisco ASA – Fortinet FortiGate or similar 6,00 100,00 12.000,00 0,00 14.400,00 72.000,00 144.000,00 File Server SAMBA / FreeNAS Microsoft Windows Server (Datacenter) 2,00 100,00 6.000,00 38,00 1.960,00 19.600,00 29.400,00 Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory File System Services LDAP / SAMBA 2,00 100,00 882,00 38,00 936,40 9.364,00 14.046,00 (Standard) Web Server Apache / Nginx Microsoft Internet Information Server 2,00 100,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 Microsoft Windows Serve (Datacenter – 16 DBMS Support Server Linux / FreeBSD 6,00 100,00 6.000,00 0,00 1.200,00 36.000,00 42.000,00 cores) Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise – 16 cores), DBMS Server PostgreSQL / MariaDB 6,00 100,00 120.000,00 0,00 144.000,00 720.000,00 1.440.000,00 Oracle DB or Similar Email Server NextCloud, RoundCube, Dovecot Microsoft Exchange Server (Standard) 2,00 100,00 708,00 88,00 1.901,60 19.016,00 28.524,00 Office Suite LibreOffice Microsoft Office 2016 Pro 1,00 100,00 0,00 400,00 8.000,00 40.000,00 80.000,00 Per PC Linux Kubuntu Microsoft Windows 10 1,00 100,00 0,00 200,00 4.000,00 20.000,00 40.000,00 VDI – Remote Desktop Server – RDP X2Go Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 2,00 200,00 10.000,00 75,00 13.000,00 50.000,00 115.000,00 Intranet System / CMS WordPress Microsoft SharePoint 1,00 100,00 7.000,00 100,00 1.400,00 17.000,00 24.000,00 Hypervisor / Cloud Administration System ProxMox VMWare vSphere / vCloud / vSAN 8,00 100,00 8.000,00 0,00 4.000,00 64.000,00 84.000,00 Checkpoint (Next Generation Firewall), F5 IDS, IPS, SIEM OSSIM, Security Onion Networks BIG-IP (Next Gen IPS), AlienVault 1,00 100,00 13.000,00 0,00 2.600,00 13.000,00 26.000,00 OSSIM (Enterprise) Vulnerability Scanner OpenVAS, Suricata/Snorby, NMAP Tenable Vulnerability Management 1,00 100,00 5.000,00 0,00 1.000,00 5.000,00 10.000,00 Open-source Ticket Request System/Knowledge Base/Problem Solving and GLPI / OTRS / OCS NG ZENDESK (per user), BMC REMEDY (pricier) 1,00 100,00 0,00 59,00 5.900,00 5.900,00 35.400,00 Request System + Automated Inventory System Network and Infrastructure Monitoring System Zabbix, Icinga, Nagios, MRTG HPE OpenView / CA UIM 1,00 100,00 15.000,00 0,00 3.000,00 15.000,00 30.000,00 Elearning Moodle, Claranet Efront, WorkWize 1,00 100,00 6.000,00 0,00 6.000,00 6.000,00 36.000,00 Application Server PHP, Apache Tomcat Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere 1,00 100,00 20.000,00 100,00 4.000,00 30.000,00 50.000,00 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Eclipse, NetBeans Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA JetBrains 10,00 10,00 1.500,00 0,00 4.500,00 15.000,00 37.500,00 , Apache OfBiz, , ERPNext, ERP Software (Enterprise Resource Planning) SAP ERP, Oracle Financials 1,00 100,00 5.000,00 1.000,00 21.000,00 105.000,00 210.000,00 CRM Software (Customer Relationship GNU Enterprise, SuiteCRM, SugarCRM, SalesForce CRM 1,00 100,00 3.000,00 600,00 12.600,00 63.000,00 126.000,00 Management)

SAVINGS 255.398,00 1.324.880,00 2.601.870,00 USD Support 5-Year Initial Savings Costs Savings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ERP_software_packages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CRM_systems

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Small/Medium Company (SME) with 100 employees,, 2 Datacenters and Functional Requirements for the Software detailed here

Each of the 2 Datacenters includes 1 Rack, 2 Air Conditioning Systems 15K Frig., one 20 Kva Natural gas generator (Generac), one 15 Kva UPS, 3 SuperMicro AMD Epyc AS-2023US-TR4 Servers with 2 Epyc Rome 7402 (24/C/48TX CPU – 48C/96T X Server, 1 TB RAM ECC, 4 X 4 TB SSDs NVMe, 8 X 8 TB SATA III Hds

Cost of the technology of both Datacenters over five years (TCO) 482.000,00 USD

Do Not includes energy consumption (negligible against other costs)

Do not includes property rental or taxes

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