There are other side-effects, of course. What we can offer today is performance comparison of L4 and L7 products in the environment where servers cannot be modified. Reporting TCO is possible in theory, but tricky in practice because it is unclear how to calculate TCO for some of the products. Consider, for example, a Linux Virtual Server software entry. TCO will depend a lot on customer environment and presence of LVS gurus in that environment.
Suggestions are very welcome.
TMF reports raw facts like list price and performance. Again, we welcome any input that will help to improve the quality of our competitions. There are a few open issues though. We welcome any comments of the workloads and rules as well.