Long Term Maintenance Cost
As reflected in the lower price performance ratio above, the long-term maintenance cost of a .NET enterprise application tends to be lower than the same application developed on leading J2EE app servers
Total middle-tier application server license costs
| Websphere 6.X on RedHat Linux | | .NET 2.0 on windows server 2003 |
| $12,054 | | $6,668 |