Pricing example
Scenario
- An organization wants to do a development project.
- The duration of the project will be one year.
- The architect will be working on the project for 6 months.
- In the second month 2 developers will start their work and in the fourth month there will be 4 developers working on the project.
- The project manager will be a TFS-user for the duration of the project.
- In the 9th month the tester will start his work.
- In the last 2 months two more developers are involved in the project.
Inhouse TFS
Before work can start, TFS needs to be configured. This will take a senior developer 4 to 8 weeks. When TFS is operational the administration will take him 4 hours a day.
The senior developers annual salary is € 40.000. Licenses are bought for a 3 year period.
| Item | Cost |
|---|
| Server hardware | € 9.000,00 |
| Team System Foundation Server | € 3.500,00 |
| SQL Server license | € 15.000,00 |
| Windows 2008 Server license | € 5.000,00 |
| Implementation & administration | € 21.666,67 |
| Total cost | € 54.166,67 |
Online-TFS
In the 4th,5th and 9th month there are more than 5 users (6).
| Item | Cost |
|---|
| Set-up cost | € 350,00 |
| Monthly fees for the first 5 users | € 8.340,00 |
| Monthly fees for additional users | € 150,00 |
| Licences | € 0,00 |
| User management | € 1.600,00 |
| Total cost | € 10.440,00 |
Over time differences will become even bigger
After several years an inhouse environment needs to be updated to the latest software and operating systems.
